Skin cancer
Posted 29 September 2016 - 11:39
Essential facts
Skin cancer can be split into 2 groups: malignant melanoma, which can be fatal, and non-melanoma such as squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinomas which are rarely fatal.
Over the past decade rates of malignant melanoma have increased by almost 50% in the UK: in 2013 there were 14,509 new cases and in 2014 2,459 people died from malignant melanoma.
Non-melanoma skin cancers are more common with 72,100 new cases diagnosed in the UK in 2013, although this underestimates true incidence.
More than 90% of people diagnosed with malignant melanoma in England and Wales survive for ten years or more according to 2010/11 figures.
What’s new
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published a quality
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