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A new 10-year road map aims to tackle the neglected diseases that still affect more than 1.7 billion people around the world
Professor Gail Davey is president of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and professor of Epidemiology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
In a world focused on stopping COVID-19, I’ve watched as many of the diseases already largely ignored by governments and scientists have been pushed further into the shadows. This is despite the fact that they kill, disable, disfigure and debilitate hundreds of millions of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Skin cancer has increased significantly in the last four decades
Incidence rates of skin cancer (cutaneous malignant melanoma) have increased more than 550% in males and 250% in females since the early 1980s in England - according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS).
Published in the new Lancet journal,
The
Lancet Regional Health - Europe, the study analyzed data on more than 265,000 individuals diagnosed with skin cancer in England over the 38-year period, 1981-2018.
Skin cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with about 16,200 new cases each year.
Excessive exposure to UV radiation from the sun (or sunlight) is the main environmental risk factor for developing skin cancer. It is estimated that about 86% of all skin cancers in the UK are attributable to excessive exposure to sunlight. Exposure to artificial sources of UV radiation from indoor tanning beds/lamps is the second most important cause of skin cancer.
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.
Men are five times more likely to get skin cancer, research shows
Rates of skin cancer in men shot up dramatically over the last 38 years
Excessive sunlight exposure causes skin cancer (Image: Pixabay)
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Rates of skin cancer in men have increased five-fold, a new study has shown.