What can I do to help prevent skin cancer in my cat?

With some of these, honestly, very little, but sun exposure in cats and people can lead to types of skin cancer. So keep your cat out of the sun as best you can. During the hours of 10 to four, keep them out of a window where the sun's beating in. For outdoor kitties, there's not a whole lot you can do. Just make sure they have some shade to be able to hide in if they like and protect the coats. Believe it or not, they make cat sunscreens. They are non-zinc oxide sunscreens. You have to be careful with what you put on a cat because they're going to groom it off anyway. And the zinc side can cause problems if they lick it down over any period of time. So if you want to use sunscreen on your cat, maybe on the ears where the hair is thin on the nose, you can do that.

While there may be very little that you can do to prevent skin cancer in cats, there is a correlation between ultraviolet radiation or sun exposure, and cats getting squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas. Cats with lighter haired faces or non-haired areas of their body are more at risk, so limiting their sun exposure can help prevent skin cancer.