Incidence rates were adjusted for age according to the world standard. The observed survival rate was calculated from the data concerning diagnosis and death in the cancer register.
Sex ratio is reported as a male-female ratio.
All acral melanomas occurred in African-European patients. The sex ratio was 0.53. Location of melanoma is demonstrated in Figure 1 . Histological features are presented in Table 1 . Comment Few data are available on the incidence of acral melanoma.