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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robin McKie Science Editor

Hope for new skin cancer therapy as UK cases soar

People on a crowded beach
The sun is a key source of UV radiation, and tanning without sufficient protection can trigger a melanoma. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Skin cancer rates are rocketing. Thanks to over-enthusiastic sunbathing in previous decades, melanoma cases have tripled in numbers in the UK since the early 1990s – and scientists predict worse is to come.

The type of cancer once relatively rare in Britain is now its fifth most common. Broadcaster Chris Evans recently revealed he had been diagnosed with the disease.

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