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Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

David Schottenfeld and Joseph F. Fraumeni

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195149616

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149616.001.0001

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Cutaneous and Ocular Melanoma

Cutaneous and Ocular Melanoma

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(p.1196) 63 Cutaneous and Ocular Melanoma
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Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
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STEPHEN B. GRUBER

BRUCE K. ARMSTRONG

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149616.003.0063

This chapter reviews the epidemiology of cutaneous and ocular melanomas. Cutaneous melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer. There were an estimated 160,000 new cases diagnosed worldwide in 2002, more than 80% in developed countries, and 41,000 deaths, 66% in developing countries. Sun exposure is its major cause, although a variety of phenotypic and genotypic characteristics contribute substantially to the risk of this complex disease. Ocular melanoma is globally much less significant than cutaneous melanoma and shows little current evidence of uptrend in incidence, in contrast to the continuing uptrend in melanoma. Melanocytes that give risk to ocular melanomas lie principally in pigmentary epithelia that extend continuously from the choroid, a vascular membrane that separates the neural elements of the retina from the fibrous outer covering of the eye (the sclera), anteriorly to the ciliary body and iris.

Keywords:   cutaneous melanoma, ocular melanoma, skin cancer, cancer risk, cancer epidemiology, cancer prevention

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