Tag: Skin Cancer

With the motto Don't wait to feel it on your skin, the Brazilian Society of Dermatology (SBD) promotes, during the last month of the year, its Skin Cancer Prevention Campaign in December. It is estimated that between 2023 and 2025 there will be 9,000 new cases of melanoma-type skin cancer each year, which arise in melanocytes (cells that produce melanin, a substance that determines skin color), and more than 220,000 non-cancer cases. melanoma skin. . Melanoma skin cancer. The forecasts were issued by the National Cancer Institute (INCA). The institute estimates...