title: Malignant melanoma in Maoris and Polynesians in New Zealand.
abstract: In 1896, Matas was the first to comment on the relative infrequency of malignant melanoma in negroes and this observation has been repeated for all pigmented races (McGovern, 1977a) A review of malignant melanoma in Maoris and Polynesians in New Zealand was performed to see if the above statement was true with respect to the pigmented people of a country with the second highest incidence of the disease in the world (Little et al., 1980).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009520:New Zealand / Q000208:ethnology; D011114:Polynesia / Q000208:ethnology