Increasing melanoma incidence with unchanged mortality: more sunshine, better treatment, increased diagnostic activity, overdiagnosis or lowered diagnostic threshold?

CONCLUSIONS: Comprehensive national data demonstrate increasing melanoma incidence correlated with increasing biopsy rates, but with no change in mortality. Previously suggested explanations for such a trend are lowered threshold of melanoma diagnosis among pathologists, increased diagnostic activity in the presence of overdiagnosis and improved melanoma treatment. Because the study is observational and because we have more explanatory factors than outcomes, the findings do not warrant conclusions about causal relationships.PMID:38655629 | DOI:10.1093/bjd/ljae175
Source: The British Journal of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Source Type: research