Women were a younger mean age at melanoma diagnosis when compared with men across all anatomic sites and most Breslow thickness categories.

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

But there is a wide gap between how well White patients fare compared to Black patients. Melanoma is one of the cancers that it is contributing to the hopeful trend of declining cancer mortality rate ...

Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin. It is a variably brown-pigmented flat patch on the head or neck of elderly patients. Its growth is generally slow, but it can ...

The number stage of a melanoma tells you how thick it is and whether it has spread. It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope.

There is no national screening programme for melanoma skin cancer in the UK. This is because research hasn’t been able to find out if the benefits of screening outweigh the risks. The best way to pick ...