Bob Marley, the legendary Jamaican reggae artist, died of a skin cancer at the age of 36. The artist had developed melanoma on his foot, reportedly from an injury that he incurred while playing ...

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists in Manchester have discovered that acral melanomas – the rare type of skin cancer that caused reggae musician Bob Marley’s death ... in the journal Pigment Cell & ...

Bob Marley, a legendary reggae artist, developed melanoma on his foot. "It’s believed that the melanoma began where he had injured his foot while playing soccer. He later died of melanoma." ...

It was it was magnificent to know how far Bob Marley had put Jamaica on the map.” Bob Marley passed away in 1981, at the age of 36, from melanoma (a type of skin cancer) complications.

Pioneering reggae artist Bob Marley would have been celebrating his ... The singer was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer called melanoma, under his big toenail in 1977. Marley initially ...

Less than a year later, on May 11, 1981, Bob Marley died of complications related to melanoma. He would have turned 80 on February 6, 2025. Marley brought reggae and its messages to the world.