TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical series of patients with cutaneous melanoma followed-up at the Novara Melanoma Centre from 1983 to 2009
T2 - Description of the cohort and prognostic factors
AU - Miglino, B.
AU - Pertusi, G.
AU - Giorgione, R.
AU - Tiberio, R.
AU - Astolfi, S.
AU - Leigheb, F.
AU - Colombo, E.
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Aim. The aim of this study was to review our experience with regards to patients with cutaneous melanoma diagnosed from 1983 to 2009, followed-up in our Dermatological Department of Novara. Methods. A retrospective study of 762 patients diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma in the Dermatological Department of Novara between 1983 and 2009 was conducted. Information was extracted from our melanoma patient database. The database included demographical, clinical and pathological variables of the patient. Clinical and pathological factors predicting survival were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier curves and the Log-Rank Test (univariate analysis). Results. Staging (American Joint Committee on Cancer 2001) of patients (P=0.000), Breslow thickness (P=0.000), primary ulceration and regression of the lesion (P=0.000), type of first (P<0.039) and second recurrence (P<0.011) were strongly correlated with overall and disease free survival. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was not correlated with disease free survival (P=0.153), it influences only overall survival (P=0.007) Conclusion. Our results confirms that sentinel node biopsy, Breslow thickness, ulceration, regression, staging, first and second recurrence are important variable for overall survival and disease free survival, sentinel lymph node status influence only overall survival instead.
AB - Aim. The aim of this study was to review our experience with regards to patients with cutaneous melanoma diagnosed from 1983 to 2009, followed-up in our Dermatological Department of Novara. Methods. A retrospective study of 762 patients diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma in the Dermatological Department of Novara between 1983 and 2009 was conducted. Information was extracted from our melanoma patient database. The database included demographical, clinical and pathological variables of the patient. Clinical and pathological factors predicting survival were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier curves and the Log-Rank Test (univariate analysis). Results. Staging (American Joint Committee on Cancer 2001) of patients (P=0.000), Breslow thickness (P=0.000), primary ulceration and regression of the lesion (P=0.000), type of first (P<0.039) and second recurrence (P<0.011) were strongly correlated with overall and disease free survival. Sentinel lymph node biopsy was not correlated with disease free survival (P=0.153), it influences only overall survival (P=0.007) Conclusion. Our results confirms that sentinel node biopsy, Breslow thickness, ulceration, regression, staging, first and second recurrence are important variable for overall survival and disease free survival, sentinel lymph node status influence only overall survival instead.
KW - Disease-free survival
KW - Melanoma
KW - Survival
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M3 - Article
SN - 0392-0488
VL - 148
SP - 443
EP - 451
JO - Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia
JF - Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia
IS - 5
ER -