Skin cancers: melanoma, non-melanoma cancers and Kaposi's sarcoma

The present paper analyses temporal trends for skin cancers including Kaposi's sarcoma in the data set of the Italian Network of Cancer Registries (pool AIRT), during 1986-1997. The estimated annual percent change (EAPC) of the standardised incidence rates for non-melanoma skin cancer (61,586 analysed cases), increased from 1986 to 1997 by 7.5%/year among males and by 5.2%/year among females. Melanoma (8,516 cases and 2,312 deaths) showed increasing incidence, 6.2%/year among males and 5.8%/year among females, and stable mortality. As regards Kaposis sarcoma (1,156 cases), incidence increased among males from 1986 to 1995 by about 13%/year, and then decreased; among females incidence was significantly increasing along the period.