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Basal-cell cancer is a very common skin cancer.

It is much more common in fair-skinned individuals with a family history of basal-cell cancer and increases in incidence closer to the equator or at higher altitude.

According to Skin Cancer Foundation, there are approximately 800, 000 new cases yearly in the United States alone.

Up to 30 % of Caucasians develop basal-cell carcinomas in their lifetime.

In Canada, the most common skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma ( as much as one third of all cancer diagnoses ), affecting 1 in 7 individuals over a lifetime.