Incidence and characteristics of acral lentiginous melanoma in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2024 Feb;90(2):374-376. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.09.024. Epub 2023 Sep 20.

Authors

Angela H Wei¹, David X Zheng², Christopher R Cullison², Jeffrey F Scott³, Bryan T Carroll²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: ahw52@case.edu.
² Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

PMID: 37734664
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2023.09.024

No abstract available

Keywords: Asian Americans; Pacific Islanders; acral lentiginous melanoma; melanoma; skin cancer; skin of color.

MeSH terms

Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incidence
Melanoma* / epidemiology
Melanoma* / ethnology
Melanoma, Cutaneous Malignant
Skin Neoplasms* / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology