Table I.

Incidence rates reported by the North American SEER registry by ethnicity. Modified from Wang et al. (3)

	Non-Hispanic white	Hispanic white	Asian	Black	Total
Superficial spreading melanoma	9.05 (8.96–9.13)	1.12 (1.05–1.19)	0.31 (0.27–0.35)	0.15 (0.12–0.18)	6.18 (6.13–6.24)
Nodular melanoma	1.80 (1.76–1.84)	0.49 (0.44–0.54)	0.14 (0.12–0.17)	0.06 (0.04–0.08)	1.30 (1.28–1.33)
Lentigo maligna melanoma	1.87 (1.83–1.90)	0.23 (0.19–0.27)	0.06 (0.05–0.08)	0.02 (0.01–0.04)	1.37 (1.35–1.40)
Acral lentiginous melanoma	0.21 (0.20–0.22)	0.24 (0.21–0.28)	0.17 (0.14–0.20)	0.19 (0.16–0.23)	0.20 (0.19–0.22)

Age-adjusted incidence rates per 100,000 person-years.