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A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county

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    • Maria Rotaru
    • Cristina Raluca Jitian
    • Gabriela Mariana Iancu
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    Affiliations: Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu, 550245 Sibiu, Romania, Clinic of Dermatology, Clinical Hospital of Sibiu, 550245 Sibiu, Romania
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    Published online on: March 1, 2019
       https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10098
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Abstract

Melanoma is considered to be the most aggressive skin cancer, with an increasing incidence worldwide. An accurate staging of melanoma is crucial in describing the cancer status, estimating prognosis and deciding the optimal treatment solution. In the present study, melanoma staging highlights the importance of early detection, most of the patients having been diagnosed with advanced stages of this skin cancer. A retrospective study was conducted among 117 patients of the Academic Emergency County Hospital of Sibiu, diagnosed with melanoma between 2007 and 2016. The staging of the patients with melanoma was made using the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 7th edition, and reconsidered in the light of the AJCC 8th edition. The results showed that the majority of the cases had distant metastases, 40.17% were diagnosed with stage IV melanoma. 25.65% of the patients were diagnosed with stage III melanoma, having a regional disease. The rest of the cases had localized melanoma (stages I and II, 30.76%), while only 3.42% of them were diagnosed with melanoma in situ, the melanoma type with the greatest chances of survival. Analyzing the Breslow index, it was observed that the most common tumor thickness was 2.1 to 4 mm (34.19%). In conclusion, as the incidence of melanoma increases in Romania, further efforts are needed to improve the early detection of melanoma. There are hopes that with the correct and early diagnosis of melanoma, the mortality rate of this neoplasm will decrease in the future.
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C.R., & Iancu, G.M. (2019). A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county. Oncology Letters, 17, 4145-4148. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10098
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C. R., Iancu, G. M."A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county". Oncology Letters 17.5 (2019): 4145-4148.
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C. R., Iancu, G. M."A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county". Oncology Letters 17, no. 5 (2019): 4145-4148. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10098
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Rotaru M, Jitian CR and Iancu GM: A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county. Oncol Lett 17: 4145-4148, 2019.
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C.R., & Iancu, G.M. (2019). A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county. Oncology Letters, 17, 4145-4148. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10098
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C. R., Iancu, G. M."A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county". Oncology Letters 17.5 (2019): 4145-4148.
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Rotaru, M., Jitian, C. R., Iancu, G. M."A 10-year retrospective study of melanoma stage at diagnosis in the academic emergency hospital of Sibiu county". Oncology Letters 17, no. 5 (2019): 4145-4148. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2019.10098
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