Burning (damaging) a cell can cause damage at the genetic level. If the cell divides you can get mutations. Any cellular damage can increase the risk of cancer

Burning (damaging) a cell can cause damage at the genetic level. If the cell divides you can get mutations. Any cellular damage can increase the risk of cancer via this series of events. Animal bodies have mechanisms to identify and eliminate aberrant cells, which is not 100% effective. This is biology 101. > If that were true you'd expect burns to skin to have a higher risk of cancer. There are a number of studies still trying to figure it out, since there is a high number of cases reported, despite evidence showing that it shouldn't increase. Some papers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305417911003184 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054... https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content/html/10.2340/00015555-0339 https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content/html/10.2340/000... https://www.jstor.org/stable/20486296 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20486296 https://burnstrauma.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41038-019-0163-2 https://burnstrauma.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s4103... (from googling)