Up-to-date survival estimates and historical trends of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the south-east of The Netherlands
Background: We present survival outcomes of patients registered in the Dutch population-based Eindhoven Cancer Registry (ECR). Patients and methods: Data on patients diagnosed with a melanoma between 1980 and 2002 were obtained from the ECR. Data on vital status up to 1 January 2005 were obtained, up-to-date survival rates were calculated using period analysis. Multivariate analyses were carried out using Cox proportional hazards model. Results: Ten-year crude survival rates were 82% for women and 60% for men ( P < 0.05). Thin melanomas (Breslow thickness ≤ 2.0 mm) had 5-year crude survival... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | epidemiology |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28763086 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/18/6/1110 |