Increasing incidence of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma in Catalonia.
Clara Matas-NadalJosep MalvehyJose Ramon FerreresAram BoadaDomingo BodetSonia SeguraMontse SallerasAntoni AzonSusana Bel-PlaXavier BigataAntoni CampoyNeus CurcóJoan DalmauManel FormigonAlberto GonzalezMiquel JustEnric LlistosellaM Elena NoguesRamon PedragosaJosep A PujolMireia SabatJoan A SmandiaPedro ZaballosSusana PuigRosa M MartíPublished in: International journal of dermatology (2018)
An important observation from this data is that aging of population and current sun exposure patterns could keep increasing the incidence of LM/LMM, which may become an important public healthcare problem, over the other histological subtypes. In order to establish primary or secondary preventive measures to the LM/LMM risk-population, it is imperative to highlight the importance of chronic sun damage as a melanoma risk factor, and not only sunburn, most commonly addressed in melanoma prevention campaigns.