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- Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer. There are 1.3
million cases of skin cancer in the U.S. every year.
- 1/3 of people living in southern California will develop some
form of skin cancer in their lifetime.
- Melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, kills one person
every hour in the U.S.
- Melanoma is the most common cancer in women ages 20-29, and
the #1 cause of cancer deaths in women ages 25-30.
- By 2010, about 1 in 50 people in the U.S. will get melanoma!
- Melanoma is one of the top causes of life years lost to preventable
cancer.
- Melanoma is 95-100% curable if caught early and treated
quickly.
- 19/20 melanoma deaths might have been prevented by education
alone.
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