Six high-risk clusters were identified with respect to county-level melanoma rate<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter<\/b>
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THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There is a negative association between travel time to tanning facilities and county-level melanoma incidence rates, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology<\/em>.<\/p>\n Guixing Wei, Ph.D., from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues examined the association between melanoma incidence and access to tanning bed facilities using data for New England county-level melanoma incidence rates for 2014 to 2018, tanning bed facilities location, demographic data, socioeconomic data, and geographic data.<\/p>\n The researchers found that for every one-minute increase in average travel time to tanning facilities within a 30-minute travel time threshold, there was a decrease in melanoma incidence by 3.46 and 1.92 percent in the same county and across New England, respectively. A negative association was identified between average travel time to tanning facilities and county-level melanoma incidence rate. With respect to county-level melanoma rate, six high-risk clusters and seven low-risk clusters were identified.<\/p>\n “The identification of clusters of melanoma incidence can help inform the strategic targeting of interventions and resources that aim to reduce the burden of melanoma,” the authors write.<\/p>\n