Cancer shock

Skin cancer cases soar by 40% in just four years

SHOCK new figures show that the number of skin cancer patients has risen by 40% in Spain in the past four years.

According to the Spanish Academy of Dermatology, over 78,000 cases are diagnosed every year, which means that 120 individuals in every 100,000 people suffer from skin cancer. Within these figures, experts explain that 12 in every 100,000 individuals have Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer.

However, they warn that in 2040, this form of skin cancer, which is by far the most dan-

By Alberto Lejarraga

gerous, will become the second most common tumour, ahead of colon and lung cancer. And it is expected to become the most common type of cancer in men by that year.

Ebola Scare

A WOMAN was given the all-clear for a suspected Ebola infection at a Basque Country hospital with tests showing she in fact had malaria.

Ebola is a serious and potentially fatal viral disease with a 50% mortality rate transmitted to humans through wild animals and then between people.

The patient was admitted to the High Biological Security Unit of the Donostia University Hospital in San Sebastian on June 1 after recently returning to a trip to the Central African Republic.

Spain has had just one recorded Ebola case when Galician nurse Teresa Romero contracted and overcame the disease in 2014.