Characteristics, Prognosis, and Competing Risk Nomograms of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma: Evidence for Pigmentary Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) always presents as a complex disease process with poor prognosis. The objective of the present study was to explore the influence of solitary or multiple cancers on the prognosis of patients with CMM to better understand the landscape of CMM.

Methods

We reviewed the records of CMM patients between 2004 and 2015 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. The cumulative incidence function was used to represent the probabilities of death. A novel causal inference method was leveraged to explore the risk difference to death between different types of CMM, and nomograms were built based on competing risk models.

Results

The analysis cohort contained 165,043 patients with CMM as the first primary malignancy. Pati

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198425 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature