How many people survive skin cancer?
• About 2,560 people died from skin cancer in 2008 in the UK. • Most skin cancer deaths, about 2,070 each year, are from malignant melanoma. • The majority of non-melanoma skin cancer deaths are in elderly people. • More than half of all people that die from malignant melanoma are younger than 70. • In the UK death rates from malignant melanoma in people aged 65 and over have almost tripled in the last 30 years. • Worldwide, around 46,000 people died from malignant melanoma in 2008.
