{"id":8563,"date":"2012-03-30T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:57:03","slug":"mayo-tanning-report-to-mislead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/mayo-tanning-report-to-mislead\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Tanning Report To Mislead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are attempting to allege that indoor tanning is causing an 8-fold increase in melanoma incidence since 1970 in women under age 40 in one Minnesota county despite the fact that the nation\u2019s largest and most comprehensive cancer registry shows no such increase.<\/p>\n

Slated to be published Monday, April 2 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo dermatologists mined data retrospectively in Olmsted County, Minn. \u2014 the county home to Rochester, the Mayo Clinic and an inordinate number of doctors per capita \u2014 from that county\u2019s cancer registry. In a media advisory issued this week, Mayo alleges that melanoma incidence has increased 8-fold in young women in Olmsted County, Minn. since 1970 and 4-fold in young men.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven as the rates of some cancers are falling, Mayo Clinic is seeing an alarming trend: the dramatic rise of skin cancer, especially among people under 40,\u201d the Rochester, Minn., health center said in a press statement. \u201cAccording to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the incidence of melanoma has escalated, and young women are the hardest hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The problem? Mayo\u2019s statements are directly contradicted by The National Cancer Institute\u2019s national data, a much larger, more-diverse multi-city database which shows a slight decrease in melanoma incidence in women under 20 since 2000 and rates of about 0.5 per 100,000 \u2014 or 5 cases in 1 million women under 20. In fact, the National Cancer Institute\u2019s melanoma data for women under age 49 shows decreasing rates since the mid-1980s, with large increases in men over age 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine this being anything but intentionally misleading to suggest that melanoma is rising \u2018especially\u2019 in young women when the national data are very clear that it is increasing dramatically in older men, not in younger women,\u201d Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy said. \u201cTo say that women are \u2018hardest hit\u2019 just repeats that error. It\u2019s politics \u2014 not science.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an online press conference Wednesday, the Mayo team alleged that NCI\u2019s database is too large and cumbersome and that the national program under-reports melanoma incidence. The team did not offer any explanation of why the NCI database actually shows a small decrease for young women in that timeframe or why mortality rates \u2014 always considered a better measure of real disease activity \u2014 are declining in young women, a measurable and divergent outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty audacious for the Mayo dermatology group to suggest that one county\u2019s data \u2014 raw numbers of reported incidence in a fair-skinned, ethnically homogeneous county with 5-40 times more pediatric specialists than other counties in Minnesota \u2014 is somehow more accurate than a national database,\u201d Levy said. Levy has tracked melanoma data for 15 years, giving a presentation in 2004 to the American Society of Photobiology on the fact that melanoma is increasing in older men, but public health campaigns continue to be centered on young women.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if the NCI database did under-report, the Mayo team does not offer any reason for why the national data doesn\u2019t show the increase that they say exists in one county,\u201d Levy said.<\/p>\n

According to the Minnesota Department of Public Health, there are 48.8 pediatric specialists per 100,000 residents in Olmsted County \u2014 5 times more than the Twin Cities (9.6) and more than 30 times what you find in Duluth (1.5). \u201cMore doctors per capita means more diagnosis,\u201d Levy said. \u201cThat should be the default explanation for why Olmsted is different. It\u2019s the most obvious explanation. This Mayo paper doesn\u2019t acknowledge that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Cancer Society\u2019s Cancer Facts and Figures also disagrees with the Mayo assessment. \u201cDuring the 1970s the incidence rate of melanoma increased rapidly by about 6 percent per year,\u201d ACS reported. \u201cHowever, from 1981-2000, the rate of increase slowed to 3 percent per year and since 2000 melanoma incidence has been stable.\u201d ACS, like NCI, also reports that melanoma mortality rates have been declining.<\/p>\n

The story will be released Monday, when the journal article is published. Smart Tan will be sending material on the study in a Member Advisory and will work with the Indoor Tanning Association to assist industry lobbying efforts on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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