The incidence of skin melanoma in the Urals Federal District

Abstract

To study the current epidemiological situation of skin melanoma in the Urals Federal District, data on the absolute, coarse and standardized incidence rates of melanoma (C43) in the male and female populations were analyzed. The analyses of specific gravity of melanoma patients detected actively at different stages of the tumor process that died during the first year from the date of diagnosis in 2016 was carried out. Higher rates of melanoma morbidity exceeding the average district rates by 29.41% were registered in the Sverdlovsk region. In the Ural Federal District, the incidence of melanoma among women in rough indicators is 1.4 times higher than the incidence in men. The standardized death rate of the population of the Ural FD from skin melanoma is lower than the average for the Russian Federation. The specific gravity of actively detected melanoma patients in the Sverdlovsk Region is 1.3 times higher than the average indicator. The Urals Federal District, among all the Federal Districts of the Russian Federation, has the greatest proportion of patients identified at the first stage (37.6%). The high rates of neglect and one - year lethality in skin melanoma justify the need to develop and conduct additional preventive measures, the introduction of new non - invasive methods for diagnosing skin lesions into practice, and a program for examining patients, especially with suspected skin melanoma.