Fig. 2

Projected Rates of New Melanoma Cases vs. UV wavelet in US States. Notes: Sources: 1) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [5]: Overweight & Obesity, Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html 2) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [6]: United States Cancer Statistics, available at: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/ 3) [19], available at: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/. Melanoma Prevalence = annual new melanoma cases per 100,000 persons adjusted for age. The shorter the wavelet the higher the level of UV radiation. The graphs are based on the middle and right columns of Table 4