The New York Times
The most common in the United States is nonmelanoma , but the exact number of cases is unknown because they are generally not tracked by cancer registries. Now, a new study reports that Americans are developing those cancers at record numbers, with 3.5 million cases a year in 2 million people, as of 2006. (Patients with a skin cancer often develop another one within the year.)
Among fee-for-service beneficiaries alone, the number of skin-cancer-related procedures nearly doubled over 14 years, to 2 million in 2006, up from 1.1 million in 1992, according to the study, published in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology... read more
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