Official Site of The State of New Jersey
Deaths due to Melanoma of the Skin by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2000 to 2020
Indicator Report Data View Options
Why Is This Important?
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. [https://www.cdc.gov/skin-cancer/statistics/ ^1^] Of the three most common types of skin cancer, melanoma causes the most deaths. [https://www.cdc.gov/skin-cancer/about/index.html ^2^]
Definition
Deaths with malignant melanoma of the skin as the underlying cause of death ICD-10 code: C43
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective CA-8.
Data Sources
- Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/) - Underlying Cause of Death, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to malignant melanoma of the skinDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in the population
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective C-8
U.S. Target: Reduce the melanoma cancer death rate to 2.4 deaths per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/cancer
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective CA-8
NJ Target: Reduce melanoma cancer deaths to 2.4 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) for the total population and 3.0 for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/cancer.shtml