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The Epidemiology of Melanoma

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Cutaneous Melanoma and Precursor Lesions

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 25))

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The comments in this chapter on the epidemiology of malignant melanoma refer to all forms of cutaneous malignant melanoma other than lentigo maligna melanoma. The evidence that lentigo maligna melanoma affects a different age group of the population, has a different natural history, and may therefore be due to different balances of aetiological factors has been well stated by the late Vincent McGovern (1). When considering the acral variant of malignant melanoma, it is difficult to incriminate directly the influence of solar radiation, but this, of course, may be an indirect effect, as was stated some years ago now by Lee & Merrill, who postulated the presence of a solar circulating factor (2).

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  1. Department of Pathology, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Dirk J. Ruiter MD

  2. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 62, 2333 AL, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Dirk J. Ruiter MD

  3. Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Kees Welvaart MD

  4. Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Kees Welvaart MD

  5. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA

    Soldano Ferrone MD

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MacKie, R.M. (1984). The Epidemiology of Melanoma. In: Ruiter, D.J., Welvaart, K., Ferrone, S. (eds) Cutaneous Melanoma and Precursor Lesions. Developments in Oncology, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6057-2_1

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