Word: nonmelanoma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lens of the eye cloud up with cataracts, which bring on blindness if untreated. The radiation can cause mutations in DNA, leading to skin cancers, including the often deadly melanoma. Estimates released last week by the United Nations Environment Program predict a 26% rise in the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers worldwide if overall ozone levels drop...
...migration to tropical climes of people with racial origins in higher, less sunny latitudes has also led to rising rates of skin cancer. A survey of nonmelanoma skin cancers in Hawaii, for example, concluded that Japanese residents of the island of Kauai were 88 times more likely to develop a skin malignancy than Japanese living in Japan. And in subtropical Australia, which was settled largely by the fair-skinned English and Irish, the skin-cancer rate is the highest in the world. Two out of three Australians will develop at least one skin cancer during their lifetime...
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