Survival for patients with single and multiple primary melanomas: the genes, environment, and melanoma study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about survival after a diagnosis of a second or higher-order (multiple) primary melanoma, and no study has explored survival in a population-based sample that included patients with single primary melanomas (SPMs) and multiple primary melanomas (MPMs) of any stage. Because people with a first primary melanoma are known to have an increased risk of being diagnosed with another, evidence for prognosis is needed.

Objective

To determine whether survival after diagnosis was better in patients with MPMs than with SPMs, as suggested in a recent study. DESIGN Survival analysis with median follow-up of 7.6 (range, 0.4-10.6) years.

Setting

The Genes, Environment, and Melanoma Study enrolled incident cases of melanoma from population-based cancer regis

SUBMITTER: Kricker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3815536 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature