201. Compliance with follow-up and prognosis among patients with thin melanomas
- Author
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Hubert Pehamberger, Michael Binder, Harald Kittler, R. Weitzdorfer, and Klaus Wolff
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Skin Neoplasms ,Time Factors ,Physical examination ,Palpation ,Cohort Studies ,Medicine ,Humans ,Survival rate ,Melanoma ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Hazard ratio ,Retrospective cohort study ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Confidence interval ,Surgery ,Survival Rate ,Oncology ,Lymphatic Metastasis ,Patient Compliance ,Regression Analysis ,Female ,Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ,business ,Cohort study ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
The aim of this study was to report on the compliance with follow-up among patients with thin melanomas. We also examined the prognosis of patients with recurrent disease and whether there were any differences in prognosis associated with the time between the last follow-up examination and the onset of recurrence. A retrospective analysis of the records of 513 consecutive patients (50.3% males, mean age: 52.8+/-16.9 years) with thin melanomas (
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- 2001