It’s true that skin cancer strikes men harder than women. Studies have shown that men are more likely to die of melanoma the most-serious skin cancer than women. Men are also more likely than women to develop melanoma and the risk gets higher as they get older. By age 65 men are two times as likely as women of the same age to get this type of skin cancer. A combination of factors including environmental and genetic factors may cause melanoma. But doctors believe that exposure to the harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun and from tanning lamps and