New at-home phone app could spot deadly cancer as cases reach all-time high

A NEW phone app you can use at home could detect cases of deadly skin cancer.

It follows warnings that rates of the disease are at an all-time high in the UK.

Over the past three decades, rates of melanoma skin cancer have more than doubled, with UK cancer specialists predicting there could be 26,500 new cases of melanoma every year by 2038.

Currently, around 17,500 people receive a melanoma diagnosis each year...