What are the key statistics about melanoma skin cancer?

Skin cancer is by far the most common form of cancer. Melanoma accounts for less than 5 percent of skin cancer cases but causes the majority of skin cancer deaths.

Melanoma in the United States in 2013 for the American Cancer Society estimates:

Approximately 76,690 new melanoma (about 45,060 men and 31,630 women) will be diagnosed. Melanoma rate has risen to at least 30 years.

Expected to be about 9,480 people die from melanoma (about 6,280 men and 3,200 women).

Melanoma is more common in whites than African-Americans more than 20 times. 

Overall, the lifetime risk of melanoma is about 2% of whites (150) (1,000), 0.1% were black, Hispanic, and 0.5% (1200). Everyone can be a number of different risk factors, which is described in the section called "What is melanoma skin cancer risk factors?"

Unlike many other common cancers, melanoma occurs in younger and older people. Prices continue to increase with age, the highest are those in the 1980s, but even those aged over 30 melanoma is not uncommon. In fact, it is in younger adults (especially young women) one of the more common cancers.