caa a22 4500 47712951X CHVBK 20180405111700.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1018432632528 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1018432632528 Incidence of cutaneous melanoma among non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks: an analysis of California Cancer Registry data, 1988-93 [Elektronische Daten] [Rosemary Cress, Elizabeth Holly] Cutaneous malignant melanoma occurs less frequently among non-Whitepopulations than among Whites. As a result, little is known about theincidence and epidemiology of melanoma among other race/ethnicity groups.Data from the California Cancer Registry (United States) among 879 Hispanic,126 Asian, and 85 Black men and women diagnosed with melanoma in 1988-93 wereanalyzed and compared with data for 17,765 non-Hispanic White cases. Average,annual, age-adjusted incidence rates per 100,000 population were 17.2 for men(M) and 11.3 for women (W) for non-Hispanic Whites; 2.8 (M), 3.0 (W) forHispanics; 0.9 (M), 0.8 (W) for Asians; and 1.0 (M), 0.7 (W) for non-HispanicBlacks. Among men, melanoma occurred on the lower extremity for 20 percent ofHispanics, 36 percent of Asians, and 50 percent of Blacks compared with ninepercent of non-Hispanic Whites, with similar but less pronounced differencesin site distribution by race/ethnicity for women. Among men, melanoma wasdiagnosed after it had metastasized to a remote site for 15 percent ofHispanics, 13 percent of Asians, and 12 percent of Blacks, compared with sixpercent of non-Hispanic Whites. Among women, seven percent of Hispanics, 21percent of Asians, and 19 percent of Blacks were diagnosed with late-stagemelanoma compared with four percent of non-Hispanic Whites. Althoughhistologic type was not specified for nearly half of the cases, Hispanic,Asian, and Black patients were more likely than non-Hispanic White patientsto have been diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma. MelanomaamongHispanics, Asians, and Blacks differs in incidence, site distribution,stage at diagnosis, andhistologic type from melanoma among non-HispanicWhites, and identification of risk factors for melanoma in theserace/ethnicity groups would elucidate further the role of sun and otherfactors in the etiology of melanoma. Chapman and Hall, 1997 Melanoma nationallicence incidence nationallicence race nationallicence site nationallicence United States nationallicence Cress Rosemary Cancer Surveillance Program, Sacramento, CA, USA aut Holly Elizabeth Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA aut Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(1997-03-01), 246-252 0957-5243 8:2<246 1997 8 10552 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018432632528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018432632528 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cress Rosemary Cancer Surveillance Program, Sacramento, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holly Elizabeth Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(1997-03-01), 246-252 0957-5243 8:2<246 1997 8 10552 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer