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Skin cancer as a group is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK. However , in summarising incidence of cancer in the UK most commentators exclude non-melanoma skin cancer from their analysis for a number of reasons :-

“ the registration data for the UK is known to be incomplete. NMSC are relatively common and usually non-fatal. There is a propensity for multiple tumours to occur in one individual and cancer registries adopt different practices in recording these.   The tumours are most common in the elderly and the completeness of registration in the very elderly is likely to be less than for younger patients. Increasing numbers of these cancers are diagnosed and treated within GP surgeries and the registration scheme is not confident that all such cases are notified”

Therefore it is very difficult to say how many cases of NMSC are diagnosed each year in the UK. Official figures have around 62,200 cases diagnosed in the UK in 2000. This is under ascertainment but we don’t know by how much. However , along with nearly 7,000 cases of malignant melanoma diagnosed in 2000 we can say that :-

   “official figures show that in 2000 there were 69,000 cases of skin cancer
registered in the UK”

This is compared with around 41,000 cases of breast cancer and 38,000 cases of lung cancer.

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