{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Gimotty PA"],"funding":["CCR NIH HHS","NCI NIH HHS"],"pagination":["2168-2172"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5077675"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["136(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Melanoma-related deaths and metastases among patients with thin (≤1 mm) and ultrathin (≤0.25 mm) melanomas have been reported. These observations might reflect adverse biology and/or errors in administrative data. Cumulative melanoma-related death rates for thickness groups of patients with thin melanomas were compared among five cohorts including the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry. Thickness in one SEER region was reexamined in pathology reports. The 5-year cumulative melanoma-related death rate of patients with ultrathin melanomas was higher in SEER (2.8%) compared with other registries (0.6-0.9%). The rates across the 16 SEER regions were 0.25% to 8.4%. In SEER, 21% of thin melanomas were ultrathin; in other registries, they comprised 5.8-15%. A reexaminatio"],"journal":["The Journal of investigative dermatology"],"pubmed_title":["Miscoding of Melanoma Thickness in SEER: Research and Clinical Implications."],"pmcid":["PMC5077675"],"funding_grant_id":["P30 CA016520","HHSN261201000028C","HHSN261201300011C","P30 CA022453","HHSN261201300011I","P50 CA174523"],"pubmed_authors":["Shore R","Lozon NL","He S","Guerry D","Vigneau FD","Schwartz AG","Dickie L","Whitlock J","Gimotty PA","Xu X","Elder DE"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Miscoding of Melanoma Thickness in SEER: Research and Clinical Implications.","description":"Melanoma-related deaths and metastases among patients with thin (≤1 mm) and ultrathin (≤0.25 mm) melanomas have been reported. These observations might reflect adverse biology and/or errors in administrative data. Cumulative melanoma-related death rates for thickness groups of patients with thin melanomas were compared among five cohorts including the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry. Thickness in one SEER region was reexamined in pathology reports. The 5-year cumulative melanoma-related death rate of patients with ultrathin melanomas was higher in SEER (2.8%) compared with other registries (0.6-0.9%). The rates across the 16 SEER regions were 0.25% to 8.4%. In SEER, 21% of thin melanomas were ultrathin; in other registries, they comprised 5.8-15%. A reexaminatio","dates":{"release":"2016-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2016 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T09:21:49.921Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:27:24Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5077675","cross_references":{"pubmed":["27354265"],"doi":["10.1016/j.jid.2016.05.121"]}}