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Each year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute, more than 53,600 people learn they have melanoma.

The lifetime risk for developing invasive melanoma is one case per 60 Americans.

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"One person dies every 65 minutes because of malignant melanoma."

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 10 percent decrease in ozone levels will result in an additional 300,000 non-melanoma and 4,500 melanoma skin cancer cases.

Malignant melanoma accounts for only 4 percent of skin cancers but causes the greatest number of skin cancer-related deaths worldwide.

One person dies every 65 minutes because of malignant melanoma.

The incidence of melanoma has more than tripled in the Caucasian population during the last 20 years. Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in the United States. Shockingly, among American women ages 20 to 29, it's the second leading cancer.

While melanoma can occur at any age, it is most common in older white men, where it's often found on the area between the shoulders and the hips, the head or neck. In women, it often develops on the lower legs.

Melanoma rates are 20 times higher in Caucasians than in darker skinned people. The melanin in dark-skinned people has been found to have a natural sun protection factor (SPF) and can filter twice as much ultraviolet light as that of a light-skinned person. Melanoma is rare in dark-skinned people. When it does occur, it happens under the fingernails or toenails or the palms or soles. However, incidence of melanoma is on the rise for Hispanic males.

Both basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have a better than 95 percent five-year cure rate if detected and treated early.

Tanned skin is not healthy and actually indicates that the skin has been damaged. The tanning industry has promoted tanning salons as a safe alternative to natural sun. Not so. UVA rays are not as safe, as previously thought.

If detected in the earliest stages, melanoma has a 99 percent five-year survival rate. Medical malpractice lawsuits for failure to diagnose melanoma in its early stages have escalated.

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The most common reasons for failure to diagnose melanoma are:

  • inaccurate pathological diagnoses
  • inadequate biopsies
  • follow up

Find out how you can file a medical negligence lawsuit. It won't bring your beloved back but it will demand accountability, justice, and restitution.