Trends in melanoma epidemiology suggest three different types of melanoma

Lipsker, Dan; Engel, Frank L.; Cribier, B.; Velten, Michel; Hédelin, Guy

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2007.08029.x

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“…Annual incidence has risen as rapidly as 4-6% in many fair-skinned populations that predominate regions like North America, Northern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (10,(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33). Increases in incidence rates vary considerably across populations of different ethnicity and geographical location, and even within populations across age and gender (6,7,9,19,34,35).…”

Section: Incidencementioning

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Epidemiology of Melanoma

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Qureshi

et al. 2017

Cutaneous Melanoma: Etiology and Therapy

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Melanoma is a potentially lethal cancer that is most commonly cutaneous. The worldwide incidence of melanoma has risen rapidly over the course of the last 50 years. Its incidence is greatest among fair-skinned populations, and in regions of lower latitude. Incidence is greater among geriatric populations, but melanoma is also among the most common cancers found in adolescent and young adult populations. In fact, it is one of the leading cancers in average years of life lost per death from disease. Melanoma incidence varies by sex, which is also associated with differences in melanoma anatomic site. Similar differences by region, ethnicity, age, and sex are observed in mortality rates of melanoma. In the setting of rising incidence and mortality, melanoma bears a heavy health and economic burden. Attributable costs are several billion in nations with greater melanoma incidence. Preventative strategies have been implemented in multiple high-risk regions with variable success. It is imperative that research efforts Epidemiology of Melanoma 4 achieve better understanding of the risk factors and etiology of disease, with the goal to halt and reverse the progressive trend of rising incidence and mortality from melanoma.

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Section: Incidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Epidemiology of Melanoma

Matthews

Qureshi

et al. 2017

Cutaneous Melanoma: Etiology and Therapy

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“…Although the mortality due to melanoma or malignant mutated pigment cell cancer has begun to stabilize in developed country (1,2), the disease shows, however a substantial increased incidence which, in term of public health, represents a high burden (3)(4)(5). As well known, among the risk factors leading to melanoma there is exposition to solar ultraviolet radiation associated to sensitive genetic background (6)(7)(8)(9).…”

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Melanoma Immunotherapy

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Advances in Malignant Melanoma - Clinical and Research Perspectives

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“…It has been questioned whether the increased disease surveillance programs have succeeded to identify melanomas with more indolent behavior (Swerlick and Chen, 1996), as it is shown that the incidence of biopsy rates between 1986 and 2001 was associated with an increase in diagnosis of in situ and local melanomas, but not the incidence of advanced melanomas, in nine geographical areas of the United States (Welch et al, 2005). More frequent thinner melanoma detection was also noted in Germany and France (Lasithiotakis et al, 2006;Lipsker et al, 2007). A large-scale prospective randomized survival-based study has not been carried out to prove benefit of skin cancer screening-although the requirement for such a study, or the ethics of being randomized to a non-screening arm, remains controversial.…”

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confidence: 99%