title: [Epidemiology of malignant melanoma].
abstract: Malignant melanoma morbidity in Khabarovsk Territory in 1973-1983 was studied. The data on 214 primary patients were analysed. In 1981-1983 morbidity level showed an 1.7-1.8-fold increase as compared with 1973-1975. Skin melanoma ranked first; it was followed by that of the eye. Skin melanoma predominated in patients with the light-color skin. Melanoma was not registered in the aborigines living in the north of the Territory.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012424:Rural Population; D012737:Sex Factors; D012800:Siberia; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays / Q000009:adverse effects; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: K épidemiologii zlokachestvennoĭ melanomy.