Cutaneous melanoma in Turkey: analysis of 1157 patients in the Melanoma Turkish Study

To develop a large Turkish National Melanoma registry in order to define demographic and clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with melanoma. The data was collected from 1635 patients with melanoma through a web-based registry system in 22 centers. Herein we present the results of 1157 patie...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of B.U. ON. 2015-07, Vol.20 (4), p.1137-1141
Hauptverfasser:	Abali, Huseyin, Celik, Ismail, Karaca, Burcak, Turna, Hande, Kaytan Saglam, Esra, Akman, Tulay, Oztop, Ilhan, Senol Coskun, Hasan, Serdar Turhal, Nazim, Sezer, Ahmet, Nayir, Erdinc, Arican, Ali, Ozkan, Metin, Sevinc, Alper, Demir, Gokhan, Budakoglu, Burcin, Issikdogan, Abdurrahman, Engin, Huseyin, Kilickap, Saadettin, Coskun, Ugur, Oyan, Basak, Harputluoglu, Hakan, Er, Ozlem, Kavgaci, Halil, Elk Ran, Tamer
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Female Humans Male Melanoma - mortality Melanoma - pathology Melanoma, Cutaneous Malignant Middle Aged Neoplasm Staging Skin Neoplasms Turkey
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Zusammenfassung:	To develop a large Turkish National Melanoma registry in order to define demographic and clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with melanoma. The data was collected from 1635 patients with melanoma through a web-based registry system in 22 centers. Herein we present the results of 1157 patients with cutaneous melanoma. The patient median age was 56.4 years and 646 (55.8%) were males. The commonest subtype was superficial spreading type (357, 30.9%). The commonest primary site was the lower extremities (N=353, 30.5%). The most common Breslow thickness was 1-2 mm (361 patients, 43.5%). Only 104 (12.5%) patients had a thickness
ISSN:	1107-0625