United States burden of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer from 1990 to 2019

Source: MDLinx, April 2021

Researchers used the Global Burden of Disease 2019, to assess skin cancer burden in the US from 1990 to 2019. They found that in 2019, incidence, prevalence, disability adjusted life years (DALY) as well as death rates per 100,000 individuals from melanoma were estimated to be 17.0, 138, 64.8 and 2.2, respectively; these estimates were 262, 314, 26.6 and 0.8, respectively, for squamous cell carcinoma and were 525, 51.2, 0.2 and zero, respectively, for basal cell carcinoma.

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