TY - JOUR
T1 - Invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma incidence in US health care workers
AU - Nguyen, Khang D.
AU - Han, Jiali
AU - Li, Tricia
AU - Qureshi, Abrar A.
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Acknowledgments This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant numbers CA87969, CA50385, and CA055075) and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Grant to K.D.N.).
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Little data on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) epidemiology within the United States are currently available. Prior studies have focused on populations outside of the United States or been limited to regions within the US. In this study, prospective data were collected via biennial questionnaires from a total of 261,609 participants, which included women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS, 1976-2008) and Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II, 1989-2009), and men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS, 1986-2008). History of physician-diagnosed invasive SCC was confirmed by pathology record review. Over the entire follow-up period for each cohort, there were 1,265 invasive SCC cases per 100,000 persons in the NHS cohort, 389 cases per 100,000 persons in NHS II, and 2,154 cases per 100,000 persons in HPFS. An 18-year follow-up of participants in these cohorts revealed increasing invasive SCC incidence rates over time, with rates for men being consistently higher than those for women. In women, a larger proportion of invasive SCC lesions occurred on the lower extremities as compared to men (21 % in NHS vs. 6 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001; 14 % in NHS II vs. 6 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001), while in men, a larger proportion occurred on the head/neck (43 % in NHS vs. 60 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001; 48 % in NHS II vs. 60 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001). In summary, invasive SCC incidence rates among US men have been greater than those for women with distinct sites of common occurrence between men and women.
AB - Little data on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) epidemiology within the United States are currently available. Prior studies have focused on populations outside of the United States or been limited to regions within the US. In this study, prospective data were collected via biennial questionnaires from a total of 261,609 participants, which included women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS, 1976-2008) and Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II, 1989-2009), and men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS, 1986-2008). History of physician-diagnosed invasive SCC was confirmed by pathology record review. Over the entire follow-up period for each cohort, there were 1,265 invasive SCC cases per 100,000 persons in the NHS cohort, 389 cases per 100,000 persons in NHS II, and 2,154 cases per 100,000 persons in HPFS. An 18-year follow-up of participants in these cohorts revealed increasing invasive SCC incidence rates over time, with rates for men being consistently higher than those for women. In women, a larger proportion of invasive SCC lesions occurred on the lower extremities as compared to men (21 % in NHS vs. 6 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001; 14 % in NHS II vs. 6 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001), while in men, a larger proportion occurred on the head/neck (43 % in NHS vs. 60 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001; 48 % in NHS II vs. 60 % in HPFS, p < 0.0001). In summary, invasive SCC incidence rates among US men have been greater than those for women with distinct sites of common occurrence between men and women.
KW - Incidence
KW - SCC
KW - Squamous cell carcinoma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00403-014-1469-3
DO - 10.1007/s00403-014-1469-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 24866765
AN - SCOPUS:84904764469
SN - 0340-3696
VL - 306
SP - 555
EP - 560
JO - Archives of Dermatological Research
JF - Archives of Dermatological Research
IS - 6
ER -