Cutaneous melanoma in the Maltese Islands: 2000–2004

Melanoma in South‐East Europe: epidemiological data from the central cancer registry and clinicopathological characteristics from the hospital‐based registry in Serbia

“…In the group of patients with thickness of >4 mm, there was no difference found between male to female ratio and age, when compared with other Breslow thickness groups. The main histogenic type was NM, which comprised 50.6% of patients, and in this patient group older age was found and males were predominant (31, 70.45% males vs. 13, 29.5% females), which is in accordance with other studies 10,12–16 …”

“…The main histogenic type was NM, which comprised 50.6% of patients, and in this patient group older age was found and males were predominant (31, 70.45% males vs. 13, 29.5% females), which is in accordance with other studies. 10,[12][13][14][15][16] The other main difference from the studies in Western Europe is that patients with thick SSM comprised 43.37% of patients with thick melanomas, and 14 (16.47%) were younger than 40 years old. 12,13,15,16 In a study from Valencia, 10% of patients were younger than 40 years, and 25.5% were of SSM type.…”

Clinical and pathological characteristics of melanoma: a population‐based study in a French regional population

“…The second major difference between male and female patients in our study was the anatomic location of melanomas, with the lower limb as primary location in women, as opposed to the trunk in men. This classical difference between genders was reported more than 30 years ago in various populations 24,25 and has persisted in some recent studies 13 . It was generally ascribed to variations in behaviours between genders in terms of dressing and sun exposure.…”

“…Apart from these mortality and incidence data, more precise, population‐based information about melanoma characteristics, particularly thickness, are sparse 10–13 . Data from the Bas‐Rhin département (1 079 016 inhabitants in December 2009) have shown that since 1980, there has been an increase in the incidence of thin melanomas, whereas the rate of thicker melanomas has remained stable, and overall, there has been a decrease in the average Breslow thickness at diagnosis 14,15 …”

Population-Based Estimates of the Occurrence of Multiple vs First Primary Basal Cell Carcinomas in 4 European Regions

“…Details of the registries are described elsewhere. 6,7,[12][13][14] According to the guidelines of the European Network of Cancer Registries, registries that record information on BCC are advised to use the International Agency for Research on Cancer/ International Association of Cancer Registries rules for multiple tumors, implying that only a first tumor of a defined histologic type (in this case BCC [International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Revision, codes M809-M811]), anywhere on the skin, is counted as an incident cancer. Notification of second or subsequent BCCs in the same individual may be recognized by updating the recorded morphologic code to 8091 (multifocal BCC).…”