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. 2008 Dec;128(12):2905-8.
doi: 10.1038/jid.2008.159. Epub 2008 Jul 10.

Recent trends in incidence of cutaneous melanoma among US Caucasian young adults

Mark P Purdue, Laura E Beane Freeman, William F Anderson, Margaret A Tucker

Recent trends in incidence of cutaneous melanoma among US Caucasian young adults

Mark P Purdue et al. J Invest Dermatol. 2008 Dec.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Age-adjusted (to 2000 U.S. population) annual cutaneous melanoma incidence and mortality rates among Caucasian males and females aged 15–39 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program areas from 1973 through 2004. The segments of uniform trend from the best-fitting Joinpoint models are also shown.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Age-specific melanoma incidence among Caucasians stratified by sex and birth-cohort year in the SEER program from 1975–1979 through 2000–2004. The points vertically above each cohort year portray the cohort’s age-specific incidence experience. The vertical line at 1965 on the x-axis of the plot for women represents the time point after which melanoma incidence begins increasing in subsequent cohorts.
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