Age as a prognostic factor in skin melanoma
| Autor: | Nada Santrac, Snezana Minic, Vesna Lackovic, Stevan Jokic, Marko Buta, Milan Gajic, Zelimir Jovanovic, Aleksandar Martinovic |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty Prognostic factor survival General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Older patients Internal medicine Statistical significance medicine melanoma In patient 10. No inequality lcsh:QH301-705.5 business.industry Melanoma prognostic factors medicine.disease 3. Good health Quartile Skin melanoma age lcsh:Biology (General) Immunology Lymph General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Biological Sciences, Vol 67, Iss 3, Pp 935-940 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1821-4339 0354-4664 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to establish whether older patients with skin melanoma (in an analyzed group of 189 patients treated at the Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia from 2004 to 2008), have worse survival compared to younger patients. In 100 men and 89 women with an average age of 58.9 years, the following parameters were observed and statistically analyzed in SPSS: gender, age, localization, tumor thickness, ulceration, lymphonodal status and invasion level. In the four age subgroups - quartiles, the best survival was shown in patients 70 years (76.1%). Patients without ulcerations, with negative lymph nodes, thin melanomas and Clark levels I and II had significantly better survival outcomes. Although the results showed no statistical significance of age as a prognostic factor in the survival of patients with skin melanoma, further research on a larger number of patients is warranted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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