Epidemiological trends in the diagnosis of melanoma in a Southern European population: analysis of a large database from a tertiary referral center
| Autor: | Eugenia Papaliodi, Aristea Mara, J. Ioannovich, Eugenia Kyriopoulou, Efstathios Mpalitsaris, Dimosthenis Tsoutsos, George Kehagias, Olga Benopoulou, Peter Panayotou, George Papaxoinis, George Karapiperis, Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, Theodosia Choreftaki, Stefanos Papadopoulos, Athanasios Karonidis, Helen Gogas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Skin Neoplasms Dermatology Disease Nodular melanoma Cohort Studies Tertiary Care Centers Breslow Thickness 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Epidemiology Humans Medicine Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Melanoma Aged business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Superficial spreading melanoma Europe Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Female business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Melanoma Research. 28:348-358 |
| ISSN: | 0960-8931 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to present the epidemiological, clinicopathological, and treatment characteristics of patients diagnosed and treated in a tertiary referral center and to analyze independent factors associated with these characteristics. In this cohort study, epidemiological, clinicopathological, and treatment characteristics of 1461 consecutive melanoma patients diagnosed and treated in a tertiary referral center in 1987-2015 were prospectively collected in a registry. All patients underwent resection of their melanoma lesion. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to examine independent correlations between characteristics. Internal validation of these correlations was performed by the bootstrap method. The median age of the patients was 53 years. Female sex had a slight predominance, whereas the majority were of Southern European origin. Superficial spreading melanoma was associated with younger age (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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