Table 2.
Incident skin cancer in the resettler cohort and in the general Saarland population for the observation period 1990 to 2007
| Men | Women | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saarland | Resettlers | Saarland | Resettlers | Saarland | Resettlers | |
|
Skin cancer diagnoses [N] |
9,564 | 52 | 9,011 | 68 | 18,575 | 120 |
|
Mean age at diagnoses (median, range) |
68 (69, 20–102) |
66 (68.5, 39–85) |
70 (72, 16–105) |
69 (72, 37–89) |
69 (71, 16–105) |
68 (70, 39–88) |
| Mid-year population | 518,712.6 | 551,080.9 | 1,069,793.5 | |||
| Person-years | 85,801.3 | 91,842.9 | 177,644.2 | |||
| Histological type [N (%)] | ||||||
| basal cell carcinoma (BCC) | 7,581 (79.3) | 39 (75) | 7,381 (81.9) | 52 (76.5) | 14,962 (80.5) | 91 (75.8) |
| squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) | 1,810 (18.9) | 12 (23.1) | 1,427 (15.8) | 16 (23.5) | 3,237 (17.4) | 28 (23.3) |
| Other | 173 (1.8) | 1 (1.9) | 203 (2.3) | 0 | 376 (2.02) | 1 (0.8) |
| Approximated UV exposure (tumour location) [N (%)] | ||||||
| UV-exposed | 6,342 (66.3) | 38 (73.1) | 6,049 (67.1) | 54 (79.4) | 12,391 (66.7) | 92 (76.7) |
| UV-unexposed | 2,237 (23.4) | 10 (19.2) | 2,009 (22.3) | 7 (10.3) | 4,246 (22.9) | 17 (14.2) |
| Unknown | 985 (10.3) | 4 (7.7) | 953 (10.6) | 7 (10.3) | 1,938 (10.4) | 11 (9.2) |