A comprehensive review of the evidence linking the use of sunscreens to an increased risk of melanoma and skin cancer (basal carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma) with extensive references ...

Malignant melanoma. Each year over a million people in the United States alone will be diagnosed with skin cancer. Of these, approximately 80, 000 will be afflicted with melanoma. The incidence or the number of new cases of melanoma per year continues to rise. One in seventy-one persons born in the year 2001 will develop melanoma over their lifetime. Although it is not the most common skin ...