USAGE A CLIMATIC GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM IN EVALUATION OF INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC FACTORS ON THE RISK OF MALIGNANT SKIN TUMORS
This research dedicated to how the climatic factors influence on the risk of melanoma skin cancer (SM) and non-melanoma skin cancer (SC). On а model of Khabarovsk Territory the effect of 12 climate risk factors were studied in a population using climate geographic information system by the methods of correlation and regression analysis. Correlation analysis showed that the incidence of skin cancer strongly correlated with the levels of the absolute minimum air temperature in January, total annual absorbed shortwave radiation, the annual radiation balance and the monthly average air temperature in January. Regression analysis revealed the role of a complex of climatic factors in morbidity rate, the most important of which are : the annual absorbed shortwave radiation, the absolute minimum air temperature in January, the annual radiation balance and the annual total solar radiation. High risk of melanoma skin cancer associated with exposure to the population of the complex of climatic factors, among which the most significant, increase the risk of the disease are: average humidity and average monthly temperature in July, and the repeatability of a cloudy sky in July.