In the United States, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. Luckily, it’s also one of the most preventable. As temperatures rise and the days lengthen, it’s important for people to monitor their time in the sun.
For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Penn Todayfeatured experts who gave a glimpse into preventing and detecting skin cancer. Below are some additional statistics about skin cancer. Find even more information from www.skincancer.org.
1 in 5
Number of Americans who will develop skin cancer by the age of 70.
$8.1 billion
Annual cost of treating skin cancers in the U.S.
1
Number of people who die from melanoma every hour.
53 percent
Increase in the number of new melanoma cases diagnosed annually since 2008.
178,560
Number of cases of melanoma that are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year.
9,320
Number people will die of melanoma this year. Of those, 5,990 will be men and 3,330 will be women.
5
Number of sunburns that double a person’s risk for melanoma, on average.
15
Number ofstates, plus the District of Columbia, that prohibit people younger than 18 from using indoor tanning devices.
419,000
Number of cases of skin cancer in the U.S. each year that are linked to indoor tanning.
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
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In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
