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The incidence of melanoma, the most lethal skin malignancy, has been increasing in the U.S. for several decades. In cohorts born after 1945, overall rates of new melanoma diagnoses seem to be leveling off — but in women born after 1960, rates are accelerating. Investigators extended the analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data on invasive cutaneous melanoma from 1998 through 2004 to include trends in young (age range, 15–39) white U.S. women and men.
Among men, annual melanoma incidence increased from 4.7 cases per 100,000 in 1973 to 7.7 in 2004. Among women, the incidence during this period increased from 5.5 to 13.9. Starting around 1980, incidence trends for men and women began to diverge. Among men, the inciden…