2019 Cancer Center Annual Report

WELCOME TO THE 2019 GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CANCER REPORT This year, we will focus our attention on melanoma. Although, skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the U.S., many people don't realize this, because it does not cause the most number of deathers. The most common type of skin cancers are basal cell and squamous cell. Melanoma accounts for only 1 percent of all skin cancer cases, but it is associated with the vast majority of skin cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society estimates the following for melanoma in the US in 2019: about 96,480 new cases of melanoma (57,220 in men and 39,260 in women), and approximately 7,230 deaths from melanoma (4,740 in men and 2,490 in women). Melanoma is most commonly diagnosed in non-Hispanic whites. The lifetime risk of developing melanoma is about 2.6 percent for Caucasians, 0.1 percent for African Americans, and 0.58 percent for Hispanics. Incidence rates are higher in women than men before age 50, but by age 65, rates in men are double those in women and by age 80, they are triple.

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