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Music icon Jimmy Buffett passed away on Friday from merkel cell carcinoma, a disease he had been fighting for four years. Here's what you should know about the rare but aggressive form of skin cancer.

Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer. It often shows up as a raised red or pink bumpy sore that's painless to touch. Here's a quick guide on risk factors, how to spot ...

Merkel cell carcinoma is rare but aggressive form of skin cancer, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Merkel cell is 40 times rarer than melanoma , with an estimated one case per 130,000 ...

Even when treatment is effective, Merkel cell carcinoma has a high recurrence rate of about 40%. On September 1, singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett passed away from a rare form of skin cancer called ...

Basal cell carcinoma lesions don’t tend to spread or metastasize as some more serious skin cancers, such as melanoma or squamous cell carcinoma, Joe Biden's physician said.

Basal cell carcinoma is a type of skin cancer that originates from the basal cells, which are cells within the skin that produce “new skin cells as old ones die off,” according to Mayo Clinic.

Big Number. 65%. That's the average 5-year relative survival rate for Merkel cell carcinoma, according to the American Cancer Society, on par with an overall cancer survival rate of 68%. Key ...

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who died September 1, had Merkel cell carcinoma, a skin cancer that’s diagnosed in fewer than 3,000 people in the US every year.