Men’s skin cancer death rate doubles over 30 years
The rate of men dying from the deadliest form of skin cancer has doubled over the past three decades.
Figures from Cancer Research UK show a steep increase in deaths from malignant melanoma, especially in elderly men.
In the late 1970s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma but that figure has now risen to over 1,100 (3.1 per 100,000). Yet the cancer is preventable if people…
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