Prognosis and Influencing Factors of Patients with Malignant Melanoma

Background Malignant melanoma (MM) is caused by the malignant transformation of epidermal melanocytes with extremely high malignant degree, and its prevention and treatment is a key issue in the field of dermatology. Objective To investigate the prognosis of patients with MM, and influencing factors of the prognosis of patients with MM. Methods A total of 205 patients with malignant melanoma from the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from January 2006 to December 2021 were selected as the subjects. The clinical data were obtained by collecting information from electronic medical records of patients, the overall survival (OS) was confirmed by telephone follow-up, and the last follow-up visit until 2022-12-31. The survival curve was plotted by the Kaplan-Meier method, and Log-rank test was used to compare the survival curves of different influencing factors. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to analyze the influencing factors of survival outcome in MM patients.