In this year alone, an estimated 40,000 Americans will develop skin cancer (SEER, 2000). Second only to breast cancer, malignant melanoma is now emerging as the most common cancer in young adults and women, specifically women ages 40-60 (SEER, 2000). There has been a sharp rise in the incidence rates in most all-Caucasian populations worldwide. The lifetime incidence of skin cancer in the United States is 1 per 90 persons. Many results from programs indicate the age-adjusted cancer incidence rate …showed first 75 words of 616 total…

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