Changes over time in cases of head/neck melanoma among kids, teens, young people in US, Canada

What The Study Did:

This observational study looked at changes in new cases of head and neck melanoma among children, adolescents and young adults in the U.S. and Canada over a 20-year period from 1995 to 2014.

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Haley N. Bray, M.D., of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2019.2769)

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