Becker's Healthcare November 20, 2024
Melanoma rates have been steadily declining among younger generations over the past two decades, according to a study published Nov. 15 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Researchers from Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Omaha, Neb.-based Creighton University, Salt Lake City-based University of Utah and Omaha-based Children’s Nebraska, used National Childhood Cancer Registry data from between 1997 and 2020 to analyze melanoma incidence in 1,243 pediatric and 74,865 adolescent and young adult patients.
Here are five things to know from the study:
- For the study, pediatric patients were defined as...
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