Open AccessDevelopment and Initial Validation of Calculated Tumor Area as a Prognostic Tool in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma
Author(s) -
Gerald Saldanha,
Jeremy Yarrow,
Somaia Elsheikh,
Marie O’Riordan,
Hussein Uraiby,
M. Bamford
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.128
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 2168-6084
pISSN - 2168-6068
DOI - 10.1001/jamadermatol.2019.0621
Subject(s) - medicine , breslow thickness , interquartile range , melanoma , proportional hazards model , population , retrospective cohort study , cohort , cancer registry , cancer , breast cancer , sentinel lymph node , environmental health , cancer research
Breslow thickness is a 1-dimensional surrogate prognostic feature for tumor size, yet tissue sections have 2 dimensions. Therefore, a 2-dimensional feature, calculated tumor area (CTA), was devised.
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