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Epidemiological Aspects of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma pp 273–288Cite as

Risk factors for presentation with thick primary melanoma include older age, male sex, smoking and may include occupation in certain industries

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Malignant melanoma is one of the few human cancers which continues to show an increasing incidence in Australia and other countries [1,2,3,4]. In Australia overall the incidence is now about 25 per 100,000 and in the Newcastle and Northern Coastal Regions of New South Wales 50 per 100,000 of the population [5]. Similar increases in incidence have been documented in other countries with a predominantly Caucasian population [3,6]. The seriousness of this increase is due to the propensity of melanoma to metastasize from its primary site to viscera resulting in death of the patient. Current death rates in Australia are 4.8 and 2.4 per 100,000 men and women respectively or about 800 per annum in Australia [1,3,4].

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  1. British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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  2. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Hersey, P., Strong, T., Grant, D., Marish, Z. (1994). Risk factors for presentation with thick primary melanoma include older age, male sex, smoking and may include occupation in certain industries. In: Gallagher, R.P., Elwood, J.M. (eds) Epidemiological Aspects of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. Developments in Oncology, vol 73. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2626-1_17

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