alt Hacker News5-year relative survival rates for melanoma skin cancer is 95%. That is all that matters.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/melanoma-skin-cancer/det...
The study data is not out yet, I thought it was, so I will wait untiul it is to comment further.
But saying in the press that:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/melanoma-drug-cancer-...
"Melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer, with more than 330,000 new cases diagnosed worldwide in 2022."
Saying melanoma is the deadliest forms of skin cancer is not revealing anything and is a scare tactic. In 2022, there were approximately 60,000 deaths worldwide due to melanoma. A rare cancer with 18% death rate is not high compared to the others. The deadliest cancers include lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. These cancers have the lowest survival rates and account for a significant number of cancer-related deaths.
But I will wait for the upcoming complications and the worse 5 year all cause mortality rate in these patients.
Question for you: what is the goal of these comments? What is it would you like people to do or think differently after reading what you've written?
I'll go first: my hope is that someone who has read what I've written will be more likely to take seriously something suspicious they see on their skin rather than ignore it as unimportant, and be more inclined to take seriously protection from sun exposure when possible