An updated report on the incidence and epidemiological trends of keratinocyte cancers in the United Kingdom 2013-2018.
M KwiatkowskaShehnaz AhmedMichael R Ardern-JonesL A BhattiT O BleikerA GavinS HussainD W HuwsL IrvineS M LanganG W M MillingtonH MitchellR MurphyL PaleyCharlotte M ProbyC S ThomsonR ThomasC TurnerS VernonZoe Claire VenablesPublished in: Skin health and disease (2021)
We highlight how common these tumours are by publishing the first ever lifetime incidence of NMSC. Additionally, the first time reporting of the age standardised incidence of KC in Wales further confirms the scale of the disease burden posed by these cancers in the UK. With approximately one in five people developing NMSC in their lifetime, optimisation of skin cancer prevention, management and research are essential.