Here are several good reasons to wear a hat when outdoors:
| - Half of all new cancers are skin cancers.*
- More than 1 million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year.*
- About 80 percent of the new skin cancer cases will be basal cell carcinoma, 16 percent are squamous cell carcinoma, and 4 percent are melanoma.
- Both basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have a better than 95 percent cure rate if detected and treated early.
- An estimated 9,800 people will die of skin cancer this year, 7,800 from melanoma and 2,000 from other skin cancers.*
- There will be about 51,400 new cases of melanoma in 2001, 29,000 men and 22,400 women.*
- This is a 9 percent increase from 2000. In 2001, at current rates one in 71 Americans have a lifetime risk of developing melanoma.
- One person dies of melanoma every hour. In 2001, 7,800 deaths will be attributed to melanoma ?
- 5,000 men and 2,800 women.* Older Caucasian males have the highest mortality rates from melanoma.
- The incidence of melanoma more than tripled among Caucasians between 1980 and 2001.
- More than 80 percent of skin cancer deaths are from melanoma.
- Melanoma is more common than any non-skin cancer among women between 25 and 29 years old.
- Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women.* **
* Source: American Cancer Society 2001 Facts & Figures
** Excluding basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which together are the most common
cancers in both sexes.
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