• If you have had more than 2 blistering sunburns
• If you have blonde or red hair
• If you have blue, green or hazel heys
• If you spent your summers in the sun during adolcense
• If you have an outdoor occupation such as agriculture, construction, fishing or mining
• If you have a history of skin cancer

• If you have had a melanoma
• If any members of your immediate family has had melanoma
• If you have more than 25 moles
• If you have irregular or atypical moles

• Half of all new cancers are skin cancers.*
• About 1.3 million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States each year.*
• About 80% of the new skin cancer cases will be basal cell carcinoma, 16% squamous cell carcinoma, and 4% melanoma.
• Both basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have a better than 95% cure rate if defected and treated early.
• About 1,200 people died of squamous cell carcinoma in 1998.
• There will be about 47,700 new cases of melanoma in 2000.* In 2000, at current rates one in 74 Americans has a lifetime risk of developing melanoma.
• One person dies of melanoma every hour. in 2000, 7,700 deaths will be attributed to melanoma - 4,800 men and 2,900 women.* Older Caucasian males have the highest mortality rates from melanoma.
• The incidence of melanoma more than tripled among Caucasians between 1980 and 2000.
• Six out of seven skin cancer deaths are from melanoma.
• Melanoma is more common than any non-skin cancer among women between 25 and 29 years old.
• Melanoma is the sixth most comon cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women.**

*Source: American Cancer Society's 2000 Facts & Figures
**Excluding basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which together are the most common cancers in both sexes.