Silvia Mancini, Emanuele Crocetti, Lauro Bucchi, Nicola Pimpinelli, Rosa Vattiato, Orietta Giuliani, Alessandra Ravaioli, Flavia Baldacchini, Ignazio Stanganelli, Fabio Falcini
After a long-term increase, the incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma has stabilized recently or even decreased in several populations of North-western Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but not in southern Europe. The incidence trends of primary invasive cutaneous malignant melanoma (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, codes C43.0-C43.9) in the Romagna Region (northern Italy, 1.2 million inhabitants) for the period 1986-2014 were analysed with an age-period-cohort modelling approach...
January 4, 2019: Melanoma Research