Association Between Melanoma Detected During Routine Skin Checks and Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Early melanoma diagnosis is associated with better health outcomes, but there is insufficient evidence that screening, such as having routine skin checks, reduces mortality.

Objective

To assess melanoma-specific and all-cause mortality associated with melanomas detected through routine skin checks, incidentally or patient detected. A secondary aim was to examine patient, sociodemographic, and clinicopathologic factors associated with different modes of melanoma detection.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective, population-based, cohort study included patients in New South Wales, Australia, who were diagnosed with melanoma over 1 year from October 23, 2006, to October 22, 2007, in the Melanoma Patterns of Care Study and followed up until 2018 (me

SUBMITTER: Watts CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8567188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature