Cent Eur J Public Health 2015, 23(2):119-121 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4090

Cutaneous Melanoma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Common Risk Factors?

Mohamed Farouk Allam1,2, Pablo Fernández-Crehuet Serrano3, José Luis Fernández-Crehuet Serrano3, Khaled Mahmoud Abd Elaziz2, Amparo Serrano Del Castillo1, Rafael Fernández-Crehuet Navajas1
1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
2 Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
3 Dermatology Department, Alto Guadalquivir Hospital, Andújar (Jaén), Spain

Aim: An epidemiological cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the association between cutaneous melanoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 40 European countries.

Methods: Incidence rates were obtained from the database of the International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC). We analyzed age-adjusted and gender-stratified incidence rates for cutaneous melanoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 40 European countries. All European countries included had registration systems that fulfilled the quality criteria of IARC. Normal distribution of the variables was examined using Kolmorov-Smirnov test before calculating their correlations using Pearson's Correlation test.

Results: In males, positive correlations were found between cutaneous melanoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma (r=0.14, p=0.38), and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (r=0.64, p<0.001). In females, negative correlation was found between cutaneous melanoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma (r=0.28, p=0.08), however, positive correlation was found between cutaneous melanoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (r=0.72, p<0.001).

Conclusion: Our findings raise the hypothesis about common risk factors for cutaneous melanoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. New epidemiological and genetic studies are needed to identify possible common risk factors.

Keywords: epidemiology, ecological, melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma

Received: September 3, 2014; Revised: April 17, 2015; Accepted: April 17, 2015; Published: June 1, 2015  Show citation

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Allam MF, Fernández-Crehuet Serrano P, Fernández-Crehuet Serrano JL, Elaziz KMA, Del Castillo AS, Fernández-Crehuet Navajas R. Cutaneous Melanoma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Common Risk Factors? Cent Eur J Public Health. 2015;23(2):119-121. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a4090. PubMed PMID: 26851421.
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