Table 2 Incident skin cancer in the resettler cohort and in the general Saarland population for the observation period 1990 to 2007

Skin cancer diagnoses

[N]

9,564

52

9,011

68

18,575

120

Mean age at diagnoses

(median, range)

68

(69, 20–102)

66

(68.5, 39–85)

70

(72, 16–105)

69

(72, 37–89)

69

(71, 16–105)

68 (70, 39–88)

Mid-year population

518,712.6

551,080.9

1,069,793.5

Person-years

85,801.3

91,842.9

177,644.2

Histological type [N (%)]

 basal cell carcinoma (BCC)

7,581 (79.3)

39 (75)

7,381 (81.9)

52 (76.5)

14,962 (80.5)

91 (75.8)

 squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)

1,810 (18.9)

12 (23.1)

1,427 (15.8)

16 (23.5)

3,237 (17.4)

28 (23.3)

 Other

173 (1.8)

1 (1.9)

203 (2.3)

0

376 (2.02)

1 (0.8)

Approximated UV exposure (tumour location) [N (%)]

 UV-exposed

6,342 (66.3)

38 (73.1)

6,049 (67.1)

54 (79.4)

12,391 (66.7)

92 (76.7)

 UV-unexposed

2,237 (23.4)

10 (19.2)

2,009 (22.3)

7 (10.3)

4,246 (22.9)

17 (14.2)

 Unknown

985 (10.3)

4 (7.7)

953 (10.6)

7 (10.3)

1,938 (10.4)

11 (9.2)