Cutaneous malignant melanoma and fluorescent lighting

Abstract

A population-based case-control study of cutaneous malignant melanoma occurring during 1980-81 was conducted in Perth, Western Australia. Three hundred and thirty-seven cases and 349 matched controls were reinterviewed in 1983 with regard to their fluorescent light exposure. The incidence rate of all melanomas was not associated with rate of exposure or cumulative exposure to all fluorescent lights or just those without diffusers. Separate analyses by histogenetic type and, where possible, body site of melanoma showed, in most instances, no consistent association between incidence rate of melanoma and exposure to fluorescent lights without diffusers. Incidence of melanomas of unclassifiable ..