The New York Times
Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to develop melanoma, but when they learn they have it, the skin cancer is often at an advanced stage, a new study of cases in Florida has found.
The study, in The Archives of Dermatology, used data from the Florida Cancer Data System, a statewide cancer
registry, to analyze 41,072 cases of melanoma diagnosed from 1990 to
2004. The cases included 39,670 in non-Hispanic whites, 1,148 in
Hispanics and 254 in blacks... read more
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