Pigmentary and cutaneous risk factors for non‐melanocytic skin cancer—A case‐control study

Abstract

The roles of ethnic origin, pigmentray traits, sun sensitivity and other cutaneous characteristics as risk factors for basal‐cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous‐cell carcinoma (SCC) were examnied in a case‐control study of prevalent and incident cases of histopathologically confirmed skin cancers. Two hundred and twenty six confirmed cases of BCC, 45 of SCC and 1,015 controls with no lesions were identified in a population‐based survey of skin cancer in 1987 in Geralditon, Western Australia. The risk of both cancers was higher in nativeborn Australians than in migrants. The risk of BCC decreased with increasing age at arrival in Australia. Southern European ancestry was strongly protective aga..