Editing Skin cancer (section)

=== Melanoma ===
In the US in 2008, 59,695 people were diagnosed with melanoma, and 8,623 people died from it.<ref name="cdc.gov">{{cite web | url = https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/index.htm | work = U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | title = Skin Cancer Statistics | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120908062143/http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/index.htm | archive-date = 8 September 2012 }}</ref> In Australia, more than 12,500 new cases of melanoma are reported each year, out of which more than 1,500 die from the disease. Australia has the highest per capita incidence of melanoma in the world.<ref>{{cite web | title = Melanoma facts and statistics | work = Melanoma Institute Australia |url=http://www.melanoma.org.au/about-melanoma/melanoma-skin-cancer-facts.html |access-date=2014-05-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518185825/http://www.melanoma.org.au/about-melanoma/melanoma-skin-cancer-facts.html |archive-date=18 May 2014}}</ref>

Although the rates of many cancers in the United States is falling, the incidence of melanoma keeps growing, with approximately 68,729 melanomas diagnosed in 2004 according to reports of the [[National Cancer Institute]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skincancer.org/Skin-Cancer-Facts/|title=Skin Cancer Facts|access-date=2010-07-02|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630225659/http://www.skincancer.org/Skin-Cancer-Facts/|archive-date=30 June 2010| work = Skin Cancer Foundation }}</ref>

Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the UK (around 13,300 people were diagnosed with melanoma in 2011), and the disease accounts for 1% all cancer deaths (around 2,100 people died in 2012).<ref>{{cite web|title=Skin cancer statistics|url=http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/skin/|website=Cancer Research UK|access-date=28 October 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116071810/http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/types/skin/|archive-date=16 January 2014}}</ref>