Only few population-based incidence analyses of vulvar melanoma including the United States and Sweden are currently available. We studied the incidence of vulvar melanoma in a large population-based cancer registry of East Germany and compared our findings with the United States and Sweden.
Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Halle, 06097 Halle (Saale), Germany. andreas.stang@medizin.uni-halle.de