More Skin, More Sun, More Tan, More Melanoma

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ID11025588
AuthorsCaroline Chang (0000-0002-6851-947X, Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), Era Caterina Murzaku (0000-0003-0122-050X, Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), Lauren Penn (0000-0002-1643-0457, Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), Naheed R Abbasi (Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), Paula D Davis (Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), Marianne Berwick (0000-0001-5062-2180, Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.), David Polsky (0000-0001-9554-5289, Caroline Chang, Era Caterina Murzaku, Lauren Penn, Naheed R. Abbasi, and David Polsky are with The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Paula D. Davis is with Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Marianne Berwick is with University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque.)
Year2014
Volume104
Issue11
Pagese92-e99
Publication date2014-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2014.302185
PMID25211764
PMCIDPMC4202947
OpenAlexW2049692596
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited36

Although personal melanoma risk factors are well established, the contribution of socioeconomic factors, including clothing styles, social norms, medical paradigms, perceptions of tanned skin, economic trends, and travel patterns, to melanoma incidence has not been fully explored. We analyzed artwork, advertisements, fashion trends, and data regarding leisure-time activities to estimate historical changes in UV skin exposure. We used data from national cancer registries to compare melanoma incidence rates with estimated skin exposure and found that they rose in parallel. Although firm conclusions about melanoma causation cannot be made in an analysis such as this, we provide a cross-disciplinary, historical framework in which to consider public health and educational measures that may ultimately help reverse melanoma incidence trends

Cancer · Causation · Clothing · Environmental health · Geography · Incidence (geometry) · Melanoma · Pathology · Political science · Population · Public health · Skin cancer · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Sunburn · Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization · Demography · Dermatology · Internal Medicine · Medicine · melanin and skin pigmentation · Skin Protection and Aging

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