Skin cancer rates have rocketed in the past few decades, rising five-fold in men, a study shows.
Incidence rates for the disease – the fifth most common cancer in the UK – are also up 250 per cent for women.
The research, by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, analysed data on more than 265,000 people diagnosed with skin cancer in England over the 37-year period between 1981 and 2018.
The number of average annual number of skin cancer cases between 1981 and 1985 was 2,446, compared with 13,915 per year between 2016 and 2018
The average number of cases increased around 470 per cent from 2,446 per year in 1981 to 1985, to 13,915 per year between 2016 and 2018.