A podcast series explores the disproportionately high mortality rate for people with darker skin diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and the rate has increased by about one-third over the last decade in the UK. Researchers have projected a record high of 20,800 cases this year with an expected rise to 27,000 by 2040. Academic studies have found that “though people of colour are less likely to become afflicted with skin cancer, they are much more likely to die from it.” One episode of the The Living with Melanoma podcast series explores the
Disproportionate death rate for melanoma patients with darker skin. as seen on The Hippocratic Post.