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Malignant Melanoma in African-Americans: A Population-Based Clinical Outcomes Study Involving 1106 African-American Patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) Database (1988-2011)
- Source :
- Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Malignant melanoma accounts for 75% of all skin cancer deaths and is potentially curable if identified early. Although melanoma is rare in African–Americans (AA), it is associated with a worse prognosis than in Caucasians. This study examines the demographic, pathologic, and clinical factors impacting AA melanoma outcomes. Data for 1106 AA and 212,721 Caucasian cutaneous melanoma patients were abstracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) database (1988–2011). Data were grouped on the basis of histological subtypes: “Superficial Spreading” (SS), “Nodular” (NM), “Lentigo Maligna” (LM), “Acral Lentiginous” (AL), and “Not otherwise specified” (NOS). Cutaneous malignant melanoma occurs most commonly in the sixth and seventh decade of life. Caucasian patients presented most commonly with trunk melanomas (34.5%), while lower extremity melanomas were more common in AAs (56.1%), P
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Multivariate analysis
Skin Neoplasms
Seer database
MEDLINE
malignant melanoma
Observational Study
Disease-Free Survival
White People
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
cutaneous melanoma
0302 clinical medicine
Sex Factors
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
melanoma
Humans
Survival rate
Aged
Neoplasm Staging
African american
Aged, 80 and over
skin cancer
business.industry
Melanoma
Torso
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
United States
Black or African American
Survival Rate
SEER
Lower Extremity
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Multivariate Analysis
Female
Skin cancer
business
SEER Program
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15365964
- Volume :
- 96
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1def4bf4fb71fcf32d1765e03602386