Tayside a cancer 'hotspot'

TAYSIDE has been named as Scotland's skin cancer "hotspot", with cases rising fourfold over the past 30 years.

Dr Charlotte Proby of Dundee University said the east coast's long hours of sunshine, fair skin and young women increasingly using tanning salons could be to blame for the figures.

Other areas of the UK where skin cancer is prevalent include the Scottish Borders and the English south coast.

Proby, the university's clinical reader in dermatology, has been investigating the more aggressive forms of skin cancer for three years with a 165,752 grant from the Association for International Cancer Research.