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Melanoma risk by age and socio-economic status

โœ Scribed by Constance S. Kerkpatrick; John A. H. Lee; Emily White

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
French
Weight
458 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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โœฆ Synopsis

To explore the relationship between melanoma incidence, socio-economic status (SES), and site of occurrence, 1.804 cases of melanoma in Washington State from 1974-85 were analyzed by mean income of census tract of residence. (Census tracts are geographic divisions of state counties for which demographic information is provided by state agencies.) For males aged 3049, as expected, the risk increased with income. Unexpectedly, at age 70 and over the trend was reversed (the heterogeneity of the age relationship was unlikely to be due to chance). In the older men, the increase with low income was found in the cases reported as Hutchinson's melanotic freckle and those which were not, being statistically significant in the latter. These findings suggest a role for longcontinued sun exposure in the etiology of malignant melanoma.

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