•Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. More than 3.5 million cases in two million people are diagnosed annually.
•Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.
•One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime.
That all sounds pretty scary but how many people that get sunburned actually get skin cancer?
ReplyDelete•A person's risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had five or more sunburns at any age.
ReplyDelete•About 65 percent of melanoma cases can be attributed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.
•One in 55 people will be diagnosed with melanoma during their lifetime.
•One blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a person's chances of developing melanoma later in life.