Increase of sentinel lymph node melanoma staging in The Netherlands; still room and need for further improvement

Autor:	Eric A Deckers, Marieke WJ Louwman, Schelto Kruijff, Harald J Hoekstra
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	elderly head and neck melanoma sentinel lymph node socioeconomic status staging Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens RC254-282
Zdroj:	Melanoma Management, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2019-0018 2045-0893 2045-0885
DOI:	10.2217/mmt-2019-0018
Popis:	Aim: To investigate implementation of the seventh American Joint Committee on Cancer melanoma staging with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and associations with socioeconomic status (SES). Patients & methods: Data from The Netherlands Cancer Registry on patient and tumor characteristics were analyzed for all stage IB–II melanoma cases diagnosed 2010–2016, along with SES data from The Netherlands Institute for Social Research. Results: The proportion of SLNB-staged patients increased from 40% to 65% (p
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