According to federal health officials reports, though the rates of new skin cancer cases has become steady in younger men, the number of women who are being diagnosed with skin cancer is on increase.

The U.S. government cancer statistics for the period 1973 to 2004 suggest that there has been a 50 % increase in new melanoma cases in younger women since 1980 but there was no increase for younger men during this period.

“It’s quite alarming” stated Mark Purdue who made the analysis for these statistics and it was published in the journal of Investigative Dermatology. “The things we are noticing in young adults at that time could predict a greater number of melanoma cases in older women.” …Click here to read more

The AAD said that one in every five Americans would develop skin cancer a moment or two during his/her life span.

The most prevalent types of skin cancer are squamous cell carcinomas and basal cell, but they are easy to treat if detected near the beginning.

It is investigated by the team of skin surgeons that more than 75% skin cancer deaths are occurred due to melanoma which is a very dangerous tumor.

Melanoma is the most insidious types of cancer which is normally occurred in the people by 25 to 29 years. Melanoma is generally developed in the trunk and it is the second most widespread form of cancer among people aged by 15 to 29 years old. Dermatologists recommend this might happen due to high-risk-tanning-behaviors.

Meanwhile, The AAD said that five-year survival rates among people aged by 10 to 39 years old observed in melanoma over 90%. Therefore, it is said, Melanoma is likely to impact something like 1 in ever 58 American people during their lifespan.

There are more risk factors of melanoma observed in Caucasian men and women, and men over 50.

If a patient’s melanoma is diagnosed and treated before it spreads and swells to the lymph nodes his/her probability of surviving over five years is 99%.

The AAD confidently says there will be around 116,500 melanoma cases this year including 54,020 noninvasive (in situ) and 62,480 insidious (34,950 men and 27,530 women). It is investigated that around 8,420 people will be died of due to melanoma like 5,400 men and 3,020 women in 2008 and it is projected that about one death from every sixty-two minutes will be soon occurred in melanoma people.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has conducted a wide survey regarding the melanoma which exposed that about 65,000 people die of due to melanoma which is caused due to ultraviolet radiations from the scorching sunlight.

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