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Risk of cutaneous melanoma associated with a family history of the disease

✍ Scribed by Deborah Ford; Judith M. Bliss; Anthony J. Swerdlow; Bruce K. Armstrong; Silvia Franceschi; Adèle Green; Elizabeth A. Holly; Thomas Mack; Rona M. Mackie; Anne Østerlind; Stephen D. Walter; Julian Peto; Douglas F. Easton

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
French
Weight
609 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In a combined analysis of 2952 melanoma patients and 3618 controls from 8 case‐control studies in white populations the risk of cutaneous melanoma was 2.24‐fold higher (95% Cl, 1.76–2.86) in subjects who reported at least one affected first‐degree relative than in subjects who did not. There was no evidence for heterogeneity in the relative risk between the studies, which were from a wide range of latitudes and hence degrees of sun exposure. The effect of family history on melanoma risk was independent of age, naevus count, hair and eye colour, and freckling. There was no evidence for a relationship between family history and primary site of melanoma but there was some suggestion that the familial patients were more likely to have superficial spreading melanoma or lentigo maligna melanoma than acral lentiginous melanoma or nodular melanoma. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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