Newsletter| An aggressive form of skin cancer previously thought to affect mainly white people, has been found to pose a significant threat not only to black people, but the public health sector that treats them
This is according to the latest study on the incidence of melanoma in the country, with a specific focus on melanoma in black Africans, published in the South African Medical Journal.
The study was led by Bianca Tod from the division of dermatology at Stellenbosch University’s medicine department. Western Cape and Gauteng had the highest melanoma incidence rates with nearly 75% of all skin cancers in all population groups diagnosed in private laboratories, and 75% of melanomas in black people diagnosed in the public sector.
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