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The past four decades have witnessed increasing incidences of nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSC), primarily basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Because cancer registries often do not capture NMSC or record only the first tumor, the true disease burden may not be evident. Lieter and colleagues evaluated data from 1970-2012 from the Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein federal states in Germany. A continuous long-term increase in incidence of these cancers was observed, and linear extrapolation revealed that both the NMSC risk and disease burden are likely to increase through 2030 due to increased UV exposure and an aging population, while NMSC mortality is predicted to remain stable or even decrease.
Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Tags: Clinical Snippets Source Type: research