Skin Cancer News and Information

How common is skin cancer?

 

The official UK figures are 6,000 cases of melanoma a year and 62,000 cases of other skin cancers.  The incidence of melanoma is increasing, probably because of increased exposure to sunlight but also due to better diagnosis.  The figure of 62,000 other skin cancers is an underestimate because these cancers are slow-growing and often remain undiagnosed in elderly people.  Roughly three out of every four non-melanoma skin cancers are basal cell carcinomas and the other quarter are squamous cell carcinomas.

 

There are three main types of skin cancer - basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas and malignant melanoma. The first two are slow-growing and easy to treat, but malignant melanoma is a dangerous, fast-growing cancer that spreads very quickly.

 

Malignant melanoma can be one of the most dangerous types of cancer. They all spread into nearby tissues, but some grow faster and spread further than others. If diagnosed late, treatment is not usually able to cure the cancer.

Squamous cell carcinomas also spread, but most of them spread so slowly that they are not very dangerous. Even the ones that spread more rapidly can be effectively treated as long as they are diagnosed reasonably early.

Basal cell carcinomas almost never spread, apart from the slow growth of the rodent ulcer itself. Even in advanced cases, treatment is almost always successful.

 

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