Age-standardized new cases per year of<unk>  of the skin per 100,000 inhabitants in 2008. Deaths from<unk>  and other skin cancers per million persons in 2012 Globally, in 2012,<unk>  occurred in 232,000 people and resulted in 55,000 deaths. Australia and New Zealand have the highest rates of<unk>  in the world. It has become more common in the last 20 years in areas that are mostly Caucasian. The rate of<unk>  has increased in the recent years, but it is not clear to what extent changes in behavior, in the environment, or in early detection are involved. Australia Australia has a very high – and increasing – rate of<unk> . In 2012, deaths from<unk>  occurred in 7.3–9.8 per 100,000 population. In Australia,<unk>  is the third most common cancer in either sex; indeed, its incidence is higher than for lung cancer, although the latter accounts for more deaths. It is estimated that in 2012, more than 12,000 Australians were diagnosed with<unk> : given Australia's modest population, this is better expressed as 59.6 new cases per 100,000 population per year; >1 in 10 of all new cancer cases were<unk> s.<unk>  incidence in Australia is matter of significance, for the following reasons: *Australian<unk>  incidence has increased by more than 30 per cent between 1991 and 2009. *Australian<unk>  age-standardised incidence rates were, as of 2008, at least 12 times higher than the world average. *Australian<unk>  incidence is, by some margin, the highest in the world. *Overall age-standardised cancer incidence in Australia is the highest in the world, and this is attributable to<unk>  alone. Age-standardised overall cancer incidence is similar to New Zealand, but there is a statistically-significant difference between Australia and all other parts of the developed world including North America, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean. United States In the United States about 9,000 people die from<unk>  a year. In 2011 it affected 19.7 per 100,000, and resulted in death in 2.7 per 100,000. In 2013: *71,943 people in the United States were diagnosed with<unk> s of the skin, including 42,430 men and 29,513 women. *9,394 people in the United States died from<unk> s of the skin, including 6,239 men and 3,155 women. The American Cancer Society's estimates for<unk>  incidence in the United States for 2017 are: *About 87,110 new<unk> s will be diagnosed (about 52,170 in men and 34,940 in women). *About 9,730 people are expected to die of<unk>  (about 6,380 men and 3,350 women).<unk>  is more than 20 times more common in whites than in African Americans. Overall, the lifetime risk of getting<unk>  is about 2.5% (1 in 40) for whites, 0.1% (1 in 1,000) for African Americans, and 0.5% (1 in 200) for Hispanics. The risk of<unk>  increases as people age. The average age of people when the disease is diagnosed is 63.
Melanoma
Blue nevus
Pseudomelanoma
Seborrheic keratosis
Xanthoma
Lentigo
Nodular melanoma
Dermatofibroma