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Gender Differences in Melanoma Awareness and Detection Practices Between Middle-aged and Older Men With Melanoma and Their Female Spouses
Susan M. Swetter, MD;
Christle J. Layton, MD;
Timothy M. Johnson, MD;
Katie R. Brooks, MPH;
Donald R. Miller, ScD;
Alan C. Geller, MPH, RN
Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(4):488-490.
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Invasive melanoma incidence and mortality rates have risen most steeply in the United States in middle-aged and older men. From 1969 to 1999, melanoma incidence increased 3-fold in middle-aged men and 5-fold in older men. During this period, mortality rates increased 66% in middle-aged men and 157% in older men compared with 19% and 49% in women in these age groups, respectively.1
Men are less likely than women to examine their own skin, seek physician examinations for melanoma, or examine the skin of their spouses.2-4 Observed sex differences in melanoma awareness and detection practices have previously been reported in population-based studies of average-risk individuals and in siblings of patients with melanoma.5-6 Our aim was to compare awareness and screening practices in middle-aged and older men . . . [Full Text of this Article] Methods
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