This is one of those stats that get abused as fairly benign cancers like certain prostate cancers get diagnosed more. But as someone who just lost my wife to m

This is one of those stats that get abused as fairly benign cancers like certain prostate cancers get diagnosed more. But as someone who just lost my wife to melanoma, I can tell you that despite the fact that treatment advances has brought 5-year survival rates from 10% to 70%, deaths are increasing. The oncologists I spoke to attribute it to the ozone hole in the 80s and 90s and the tanning bed phenomenon of the 90s and 2000s. Think of cancer not as a thing but as a disease process. Each variant has different drivers and each treatment regime has different risks. Social and environmental factors drive many negative outcomes.