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Caucasians aren't the only race prone to skin cancer

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I learned that among women, white women had the highest rate of getting melanoma of the skin, followed by Hispanic, American Indian, Asian, and Black women.

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The most interesting thing I learned was that one in every five Americans will develop skin cancer.

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Compared with stage I melanoma patients treated within 30 days of being biopsied, those treated 30 to 59 days after biopsy have a 5 percent higher risk of dying from the disease, and those treated more than 119 days after biopsy have a 41 percent higher risk.

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154,000 people are estimated to die from lung cancer in 2018.

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Caucasians are more prone to skin cancer than others.

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The most interesting observation I made was more people develop skin cancer because of indoor tanning than develop lung cancer because of smoking.

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Organ transplant patients are approximately 100 times more likely than the general public to develop squamous cell carcinoma.

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More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the US than all other cancers combined.

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The treatment for Skin cancer is very expensive and is about 8.1 Billion dollars. One in five people get skin cancer by the age of 70.

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One in five Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70.

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Cancer is more likely to develop in older people and 87% of all cancers are diagnosed in those 50 years or older.

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Among women, white women had the highest rate of getting melanoma of the skin.

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The most interesting this I learned was that the state that had the greatest amount of skin cancer cases in 2018 was California, with 178,130. The state with the least amount of cases was Wyoming, with 2,780. Even Alaska has more cases, with 3,550.

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I thought that women would have higher skin cancer rates than men because women are more likely to go outside to tan or use tanning beds. But actually, men have higher rates of melanomas.

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The most interesting thing I learned was that women who have ever tanned indoors are six times more likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in their 20s than those who have never tanned indoors.

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One person dies of melanoma every hour. I'm also least likely to get skin cancer.

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Among women, white women were more likely to die of melanoma of the skin than any other group, followed by Hispanic, black, and Asian/Pacific Islander women.

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The most interesting obervation I made was one person dies of melanoma every hour. Higher rate than I expected.

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The most interesting observation I made was that 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer by 70.

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Skin cancer affects caucasians more than people of color.

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White men are more likely to develop melanoma