Trends in nonmelanoma skin cancer mortality.
Nonmelanoma skin cancer mortality rates for recent decades show a biphasic pattern: from 1950-65 rates decreased; from 1966-86 rates increased. Age standardised mortality rates for 35-74 year old males increased from 1.6 (95% CI, 1.3-1.9) deaths per 100,000 person years in 1966-72 to 2.3 (95% CI, 2.0-2.5) deaths per 100,000 person years in 1980-86. Rates in women were lower but showed a similar percentage increase (46%), between these periods, to that observed for men (44%). The increased mortality from 1966 was presumably a result of increased ultraviolet exposure.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*