Looking for statistics on skin cancer figures?

I've never bothered to use sun cream, apart from the rare occasion when I've been abroad, and I am a bit sceptical about the dangers of exposure to the sun. Surely if it was so dangerous then skin cancer figures would be historically very high, and I am assuming skin cancer or disease of the skin would have been fairly easy to diagnose even when medicine was not so advanced.





Does anyone know where I can find skin cancer figures (and other diseases) going through history?

Looking for statistics on skin cancer figures?
Incidence (annual) of Skin Cancer: more than 1 million annually (mostly the less dangerous types: basal and squamous)


http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/skin_can...


Incidence Rate: approx 1 in 272 or 0.37% or 1 million people in USA


Incidence extrapolations for USA for Skin Cancer: 1,000,000 per year, 83,333 per month, 19,230 per week, 2,739 per day, 114 per hour, 1 per minute, 0 per second.





Prevalance of Skin Cancer: more than 1 million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year. (Source: excerpt from Skin Cancer: NWHIC)


Incidence of Skin Cancer: Each year, about a million people in the United States learn that they have skin cancer. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Skin Cancer: NCI)


Incidence statistics about Skin Cancer: The following statistics relate to the incidence of Skin Cancer:





53,600 annual melanoma cases and 4,700 non-epithelial skin cancer (SEER 2002 estimate: non-basal and non-squamous)


59,350 new cases for skin cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


31,640 new male cases for skin cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


27,710 new female cases for skin cancer in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2002)


55,100 new cases for melanoma in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


29,900 new male cases for melanoma in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


25,200 new female cases for melanoma in the US 2004 (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


Men more prone than women in the US (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


12 per 100,000 population in the US (Cancer Facts and Figures, American Cancer Society, 2004)


Estimated 374,000 new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer annually in Australia 2000 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)


FOR DEATH RATES AND MORE INFORMATION SEE


http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/skin_can...


FOR VARIOUS DISEASES SEE THESE SITES


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default....


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/map_page...


http://www.msgtruth.org/disease.htm


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night jasmine