Skin Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: At-a-Glance, 1995

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 in his-her lifetime. An estimated one million new cases of basal and squamous cell carcinomas will occur each year; it is estimated that 34,100 new cases of melanoma will occur in 1995. Skin cancers will claim the lives of approximately 9,300 people in 1995: 7,200 from malignant and 2,100 from other skin cancers. The three major types of skin cancer are basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, and the more serious malignant melanoma.