Skin cancer 'causes two to three deaths a day in Spain', but is 98% curable if caught early
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 @ 2:50 PM
BETWEEN two and three people die every day in Spain from late-diagnosed skin cancer, medics warn – and around 4,000 patients are diagnosed with malignant melanoma every year.
The outcome is very positive indeed for melanomas discovered at an early stage, and at present they only account for 1.5 per cent of all cancerous tumours found in humans, with an equal incidence for men and for women.
It is the fifth-most frequent form of cancer in men and the sixth-most common in women, is most likely to occur between the ages of 40 and 70, and the increase in the number of cases seen in recent years is as rapid as that of lung, liver and thyroid cancers.
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