I used to think

that melanoma was just another word for skin cancer, but have found out recently, that melanoma is much more rare, and nasty.

  • An estimated 76,100 new cases of invasive melanoma will be diagnosed in the US in 2014.
  • An estimated 9,710 people will die of melanoma in 2014.
  • Melanoma accounts for less than two percent of skin cancer cases, but the vast majority of skin cancer deaths.

    • Bottom line, have been way too reckless, getting way too much sun, over MANY years.

     

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