Letter to the Editor: Only superficial spreading melanoma is causing the melanoma epidemics?
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 19 (1) , 91-92
- https://doi.org/10.1023/b:ejep.0000013394.76682.b4
Abstract
Population-based data from the Tuscany Cancer Registry including 1836 malignant melanoma diagnosed during 1985-1999 were analysed according to the morphological type. Only superficial spreading melanoma (1017 cases) showed a striking increase in incidence during the period. This was true both for thin and thick tumours. A differential effect of sun exposure in melanoma development according to morphological type deserve to be investigated.Keywords
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