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Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience

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    • Loredana Ungureanu
    • Iulia Zboraș
    • Alina Vasilovici
    • Ștefan  Vesa
    • Ioana Cosgarea
    • Rodica Cosgarea
    • Simona Șenilă
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    Affiliations: Department of Dermatology, ‘Iuliu Hațieganu’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400006 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania, Department of Pharmacology, ‘Iuliu Hațieganu’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, 400012 Cluj‑Napoca, Romania, Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
    Copyright: © Ungureanu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Abstract

Patients with melanoma have an increased risk of having other neoplasms, and particularly other melanomas and non‑melanoma skin cancers. The study aimed to describe multiple primary melanomas in a large medical university centre from Romania (Cluj‑Napoca) from 2004 to 2020. Out of 699 patients with melanoma included in the study, 26 (3.71%) developed multiple tumours. The 26 patients developed a total of 59 melanomas, corresponding to a mean of 2.3 melanomas per patient. The site and histological subtype of the first and second melanomas were not consistent. The proportion of subsequent melanomas that were in situ (51.5%) or thin melanomas (<1 mm, 24.2%) was higher compared with first melanomas (7.7%, respectively 11.5%). The median and mean time to diagnosis was 2.75 months, respectively, 28.09 months. In total, 76.92% of second melanomas were detected within three years, but we were able to document a subsequent melanoma more than ten years after the first diagnosis. The study highlights the importance of follow‑up in patients diagnosed with melanoma, not only in the first years after the primary diagnoses but for the entire life.
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., & Șenilă, S. (2021). Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 21, 88. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9520
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., Șenilă, S."Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 21.1 (2021): 88.
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., Șenilă, S."Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 21, no. 1 (2021): 88. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9520
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., & Șenilă, S. (2021). Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine, 21, 88. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9520
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., Șenilă, S."Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 21.1 (2021): 88.
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Ungureanu, L., Zboraș, I., Vasilovici, A., Vesa, Ș., Cosgarea, I., Cosgarea, R., Șenilă, S."Multiple primary melanomas: Our experience". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 21, no. 1 (2021): 88. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2020.9520
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