National Skin Cancer Prevention Education Program: At-a-Glance, 1996

摘要

Skin cancer is the most common and most rapidly increasing form of cancer in theUnited States. One in six Americans will develop skin cancer. The three major types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and the most serious malignant melanoma. An estimated one million new cases of basal and squamous cell carcinomas occur each year; it is estimated that 38,300 new cases of melanoma will occur in 1996. Skin cancers will claim the lives of approximately 9,430 people in 1996: 7,300 of these deaths will be from melanoma, and 2,130 will be from other skin cancers.