The incidence of melanoma in the Île-de-France region in 1994 was 9.93 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The incidence of invasive melanoma (stages II to V) was 8.62 cases per 100,000 inhabitants... These figures are similar to the incidence observed in four English counties in 1992, and in the French department of Haut-Rhin between 1991 and 1994.