Melanoma Thickness and Survival Trends in the United States, 1989 to 2009.

ABSTRACT: With melanoma incidence rising and mortality stable, some question whether the melanoma epidemic is real. Melanoma thickness and survival trends may provide insights, but previous studies have been limited because of missing data on thickness. With a validated imputation method for missing thickness data, we characterized melanoma thickness and survival trends among men and women in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-9 registries between 1989 and 2009. A total of 98,498 cases of invasive melanoma were identified. All statistical tests were two-sided. Incidence per 100 000 person-years increased (13.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 13.65 to 14.23, to 21.87, 95% CI = 21.56 to 22.19, P < .001) between 1989 to 1991 and 2007 to 2009, fatal incidence remained stable (2.32,

SUBMITTER: Shaikh WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4857148 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature