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Increases in Melanoma Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in California

Author(s) -

Amelia K. Hausauer

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

archives of dermatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3652

pISSN - 0003-987X

DOI - 10.1001/archdermatol.2011.44

Subject(s) - medicine , demography , socioeconomic status , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , melanoma , rate ratio , proxy (statistics) , psychological intervention , gerontology , population , environmental health , physics , cancer research , machine learning , sociology , computer science , optics , psychiatry

During the past 3 decades in the United States, melanoma incidence among non-Hispanic white girls and women aged 15 to 39 years has more than doubled. To better understand which specific subpopulations of girls and women experienced this increase and thereby to target public health interventions, we assessed the relationship between melanoma incidence and small-area level measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and UV radiation (UV-R) exposure.

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