How common is melanoma? – Selenium Zone

Question: How common is melanoma?
- Keywords:
  cancer,
  melanoma,
  skin,
  skin damage
Asked by jammiedodger to Ken on 14 Mar 2012.
- Ken Dutton-Regester answered on 14 Mar 2012:
  
  In the UK- there is probably about 12,000 cases of malignant melanoma a year. Of these people- about 2000 died

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jammiedodger commented on 14 Mar 2012:

How does that compare to other types of cancer?

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