Section 2: Your Progress
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Can you guess which very famous person died of acral lentiginous melanoma?

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Audrey Hepburn was diagnost with cancer in 1992. She died in 1993 in the age of 63 from her bowel cancer. 

Sir Alec Guinness died in the age 86 of liver cancer.

Bob Marley died at 36 from a acral lentiginous melanoma. Many people are very surprised to hear that Bob Marley died of melanoma and how young he was when he died. His age was especially significant because although melanoma is more common in people over the age of 50, it is a young person’s disease due being so prevalent in a young demographic group. Read more about Bob Marley’s story on Cancer Research UK’s blog. 

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Melanoma is currently the 5th most common cancer in the UK with over 17,000 cases and over 2000 deaths in the UK in 2019.

Every year the numbers grow substantially, with incidence rates up by 32% in the last decade, and yet there is still very little awareness in the public domain about what melanoma is and how it actually affects a person.

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