Around 5,700 pensioners are now diagnosed with melanoma each year in the UK

Pensioners in the UK are seven times more likely to develop the deadliest form of skin cancer than they were four decades ago, according to new figures from Cancer Research UK. Men aged 65 and over are around 10 times more likely to be diagnosed with malignant melanoma than their parents’ generation while older women are about five times more likely to develop this disease, the charity claims.