More than a million people will be diagnosed with skin cancer this year.

More than half of all new cancers are skin cancers.

One in 5 Americans will get skin cancer in the course of a lifetime.

One person dies every hour from skin cancer, primarily melanoma.

Nationally, there are more new cases of skin cancer each year than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, and colon.

The incidence of melanoma is increasing rapidly in women under the age of 40. It is now the most common cancer in young women aged 25-29, and second only to breast cancer in women aged 30-34.

Melanoma kills more young women than any other cancer.

In national skin cancer screenings, the majority of screenees found to have melanoma – 44% -- are white men over age 50.

The two groups with the highest skin cancer incidence in national screenings are men over age 50 with a changing mole or fair skin, and men under age 50 with a changing mole or fair skin.

The incidence of eye melanomas among white males increased 295 percent between 1973 and 1999.

More than 90 percent of all skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, yet fewer than 33 percent of adults, adolescents, and children routinely use sun protection.

Melanoma accounts for 3/4 of all deaths from skin cancer, which adds up to over 7900 American lives each year.

The risk of developing melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, has more than doubled in the past decade.

One in four persons who develop skin cancer is under the age of 40.

Almost 37 percent of white female adolescents and over 11 percent of white male adolescents between 13 and 19 years of age in the U.S. have used tanning booths.

The effects of photoaging (skin aging caused by the sun) can be seen as early as in one’s 20’s.

While melanoma is uncommon in African-Americans, Latinos, and Asians, it is most deadly for these populations.

Putting proven cancer prevention and early detection techniques into action could eliminate at least 100,000 cancer cases and 60,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. each year.