%0 Journal Article
%A Moreno-Ramírez, David
%A Ojeda-Vila, Teresa
%A Ríos-Martín, Juan J
%A Nieto-García, Adoración
%A Ferrándiz, Lara
%T Role of Age and Sex in the Diagnosis of Early-stage Malignant Melanoma: A Cross-Sectional study.
%D 2015
%@ 0001-5555
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2152
%X Age and sex have been identified as predictors of outcome in malignant melanoma (MM). This aim of this multicentre, cross-sectional study was to analyse the role of age and sex as explanatory variables for the diagnosis of thin MM. A total of 2430 patients with MM were recruited. Cases of in situ-T1 MM were more frequent than T2-T4 MM (56.26% vs. 43.74%). Breslow thickness increased throughout decades of life (analysis of variance (ANOVA) p < 0.001), with a weak correlation between Breslow thickness and patient's age (r   = 0.202, p < 0.001). Breslow thickness was significantly less in women (1.79 vs. 2.38 mm, p = 0.0001). Binary logistic regression showed a significant (p < 0.001) odds ratio for age 0-29 years (1.18), and 30-59 years (1.16), and for women (1.09). Age and sex explained 3.64% of the variation observed in Tis-T1 frequency (R2 = 0.0364). Age and sex appear to explain a low percentage of the variation in the early detection of MM.
%K Malignant melanoma
%K Prognostic predictors
%K Thin melanoma
%K Early-stage malignant melanoma
%K Age
%K Sex
%K Estudios transversales
%K Modelos logísticos
%K Melanoma
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