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Incidence of In Situ and Invasive Melanoma in Denmark From 1985 Through 2012
Author(s) -
Neel Maria Helvind,
Lisbet Rosenkrantz Hölmich,
Sigrun Smith,
Martin Glud,
Klaus Kaae Andersen,
Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton,
Krzysztof T. Drzewiecki
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jama dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.128
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 2168-6084
pISSN - 2168-6068
DOI - 10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.1481
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , breslow thickness , incidence (geometry) , danish , dermatology , cancer , breast cancer , sentinel lymph node , linguistics , philosophy , physics , cancer research , optics
In Denmark, the incidence of malignant melanoma (MM) has doubled during the past 25 years, with an incidence of 29.5 and 31.7 per 100,000 person-years in 2012 for men and women, respectively. Understanding the nature of this increase in incidence is important to optimize prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of in situ and invasive melanoma in Denmark.

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