UK skin cancer on rise
April 24, 2014
Cancer research data from
the UK has shown more than
13,000 people develop malignant
melanoma each year versus only
around 1,800 people per year in
the 1970s.
The present day diagnosis rate is
around 17 people in every 100,000,
compared with three per 100,000
in the mid 1970s.
According to the BBC News
Health, the rise is partly due
to rising popularity of package
holidays to Europe from the
late 1960s as well as the use of
sunbeds.
Now the fifth most common
cancer, malignant melanoma kills
more than 2,000 Great Britain
residents every year.
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