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. 2021 Feb;35(2):687-689.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-0885-1. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Ocular melanoma incidence rates and trends in the United States, 2001-2016

MaryBeth B Culp  1 , Vicki Benard  2 , Nicole F Dowling  2 , Jessica King  2 , Hua Lu  3 , Chandrika Rao  4 , Lia C Scott  2 , Reda Wilson  2 , Manxia Wu  5
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Ocular melanoma incidence rates and trends in the United States, 2001-2016

MaryBeth B Culp et al. Eye (Lond). 2021 Feb.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Ocular melanoma observed (symbols) and joinpoint modeled (lines) rates for non-Hispanic whites by age and sex, 2001–2016.
Rates age-adjusted per 1,000,000. M&F^ males and females, M^ males, F^ females. An asterisk indicates that the t-test for the annual percent change (APC) had a p value < 0.05.
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