Where the sun never shines: anorectal melanoma

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
B J MillerJ R Cohen

Abstract

Melanoma occurring in the anorectal region is recognized to be an uncommon tumour with a poor prognosis. Queensland has the highest incidence rate of cutaneous melanoma in the world. The purpose of the present study was to determine if the very high incidence of cutaneous melanoma in Queensland has any bearing on the incidence of anorectal melanoma, and to compare this with published studies from other parts of the world. An assessment of the authors' results in the treatment of anorectal melanoma was made by a review of patients presenting during the last decade throughout Queensland. All cases of melanoma occurring in Queensland are accumulated in the Melanoma Register, administered by the Queensland Melanoma Project, and data from this were used to derive the results in the present study. Queensland population data were provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. During the study period 1985-95 in Queensland there were 21,391 cases of cutaneous melanoma which occurred in an average population, during that time, of 2.89 million. During the same time there were nine cases of anorectal melanoma, giving a relative incidence therefore of 0.04%. This contrasts with published relative incidences of 0.2% for white people in Nor...Continue Reading

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