Skin Cancer Incidence
UK
Over 65,000 people are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancers each year, with approximately 4 times as many cases of BCC as SCC.
About 8,000 people are diagnosed with melanoma each year.
Over 2,300 people die from skin cancer each year.
The number of cases of skin cancer has doubled over the last 20 years, and is continuing to increase. Increasing rates of early detection do, however, mean that survival rates for those who do get it are also increasing.
Australia
About 380,000 people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year.
About 1,600 people die from skin cancer each year.
It is estimated that 2 in 3 Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer by the time they reach 70.
It is estimated that 1 in 25 Australian men, and 1 in 34 Australian women, will be diagnosed with melanoma at some time in their lives.
Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, with melanoma rates about 4 times those in Canada, USA and UK.
USA
Nearly 1 million people are diagnosed with BCC each year.
Almost 10,000 Americans die from melanoma each year.
It is estimated that 1 in 68 Americans will be diagnosed with melanoma at some time in their lives.
Worldwide
There are 2-3 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancers each year.
There are approximately 130,000 cases of melanoma each year.
About 66,000 people die from skin cancer each year.
It is estimated that 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer at some point in their lives.
It is estimated that 1 in 74 people will develop melanoma at some point in their lives.
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