'Outlook worse' for scalp cancer - BBC Health News 21st April 2008

Skin cancers on the scalp or neck are more deadly than those elsewhere on the body, a large study has suggested. An analysis of 50,000 cases of melanoma found people with these cancers were nearly twice as likely to die as those with the disease on arms or legs. Scalp and neck cancers were often found later but there seemed to be something inherently virulent about them, the Archives of Dermatology study found.

Link to Article