Open AccessEarly Detection of Thick Melanomas in the United States
Author(s) -
MarieFrance Demierre,
Connie Chung,
Donald R. Miller,
Alan C. Geller
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
archives of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3652
pISSN - 0003-987X
DOI - 10.1001/archderm.141.6.745
Subject(s) - melanoma , medicine , nodular melanoma , superficial spreading melanoma , incidence (geometry) , lentigo maligna melanoma , dermatology , lentigo maligna , epidemiology , lentigo , pathology , physics , cancer research , optics
Incidence and mortality of melanoma in the United States have risen steeply. Part of this mortality increase may be related to late detection of biologically aggressive nodular melanomas. We determined trends in distribution of thin and thick melanoma, with emphasis on the histopathologic subtype nodular melanoma.
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