Academic Article: Incidence of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in the United States

In this academic article, Incidence of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in the United States, the doctors did a survey to determine the rate of nonmelanoma skin cancer incidents in the United States.  The survey was stratified by male and female. It was also blocked by basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The article explains that age-adjusted incidence rates were graphed against the estimated annual UV-B exposure. This graph was plotted on a logarithmic scale, which created a high correlation and a positive slope. The doctors used this linear model to predict the effect of UV-B exposure on skin cancer incidence for male/female patients and basal/squamous cell carcinoma.  The linear model implied that caucasians living in areas with high UV-B exposure will be more likely to have nonmelanoma skin cancer. The image below shows that people with low pigment levels (0.0-2.7 LIM) are more like to have an incident of skin cancer, which supports what the linear model (described above) implied.