Monday, July 15, 2013

Kansas has higher than average skin cancer rate | The Salina Post

(AP) ? As a state with a large number of outdoor workers, Kansas has a problem with skin?cancer.Screen Shot 2013-07-14 at 6.19.20 PM

A 2009 study by the Center for Disease Control shows that more than a million people in the United States have been diagnosed with skin?cancer. That makes it the most common cancer.

Kansas has 9 percent more new melanoma cases than the national average. About 80 Kansans die from skin?cancer every year.

Bill Heer has had several suspicious spots removed from his arms, including a few that were pre-melanoma skin?cancer. The former head agronomist at Kansas State?s South-Central Kansas Research Field recalls burning often while growing up on a farm in the 1950s and 1960s.

Experts say those early burns put people at risk.

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Source: http://salinapost.com/2013/07/14/kansas-has-higher-than-average-skin-cancer-rate/

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