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Estimating prevalence and incidence of skin cancer in Germany
Magdalene Krensel1, Jana Petersen1, Peter Mohr2
1Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Nursing (IVDP), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
Background And Objectives:
The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of skin cancer.
Patients And Methods:
We calculated prevalence and incidence for cutaneous melanoma (CM) and non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in 2012 in Germany, using claims data of 2.1 million insured persons. In order to allow statements concerning differences between subgroups, we calculated 95 % confidence intervals. Finally, we standardized prevalence and incidence with regard to the German population.
Results:
The prevalence and incidence of CM amounted to 0.12 % and 0.04 % and increased with age. For NMSC these measures were 0.65 % and 0.15 %. Of the prevalent and incident patients, 88.9 % and 87.4 % (CM) and 99.4 % and 98.8 % (NMSC) respectively were at early stages. A projection on the whole population resulted in 75,419 persons affected by CM and 376,004 persons affected by NMSC, including 24,075 (CM) and 84,618 (NMSC) incident patients.
Conclusions:
In this study, we defined epidemiological measures according to the number of patients affected by skin cancer and having a medical consultation indicating a need for treatment. These results can serve in future research as a data basis for analysis of health service demand in skin cancer patients and the associated costs.
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