General Facts About skin cancer

healthydailymail.com many facts about skin cancer we need to know:

1. Each year in the US, nearly 5 million people are treated for skin cancer.61 In 2006, in the most recent study available, 3.5 million cases were diagnosed in 2.2 million people.2
2. Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2
3. Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 percent between 1992 and 2006.1
4. Over the past three decades, more people have had skin cancer than all other cancers combined.3
   
5. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of a lifetime.5
6. 13 million white non-Hispanics living in the US at the beginning of 2007 had at least one nonmelanoma skin cancer, typically diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).3
7. Between 40 and 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have either BCC or SCC at least once.4
8. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer; an estimated 2.8 million are diagnosed annually in the US. BCCs are rarely fatal, but can be highly disfiguring if allowed to grow.6
9. Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common form of skin cancer. An estimated 700,000 cases of SCC are diagnosed each year in the US.6,7, 54
10. The incidence of squamous cell carcinoma has been rising, with increases up to 200 percent over the past three decades in the US.54
11. Organ transplant patients are up to 250 times more likely than the general public to develop squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).58, 59
12. About two percent of squamous cell carcinoma patients – between 3,900 and 8,800 people – died from the disease in the US in 2012.54
13. As many as three thousand deaths from advanced basal cell carcinoma occur annually in the US.65
14. Actinic keratosis is the most common precancer; it affects more than 58 million Americans.8
15. Approximately 65 percent of all squamous cell carcinomas and 36 percent of all basal cell carcinomas arise in lesions that previously were diagnosed as actinic keratoses.9
16. About 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers are associated with exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun

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