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- Title
Congenital or early onset naevi. A risk factor for melanoma?
- Authors
Doherty, V. R.; Tillman, D. M.; Mackie, R. M.
- Abstract
This article presents a study of all patients presenting with melanoma under the age of 30 in the West of Scotland between the years 1979 and 1986. In this period 1299 melanomas were registered with the West of Scotland Melanoma Group and 99 of these occurred in patients aged under 30 years at presentation. The proportion of melanoma patients under the age of 30 did not show a significant rise over this 8-year period. Eighty-nine of the 99 patients under the age of 30 were fully assessible. They comprised 57 females and 32 males and there were no differences between the younger and older melanoma patients with regard to site of the primary lesion or average Breslow thickness. In the course of this study it was observed that 39 of patients with melanoma under the age of 30 gave a clear clinical history of a pre-existing small congenital or early onset naevus on the site of the developing melanoma.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; MELANOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE tumors; CANCER patients; DISEASES in older people; CLINICAL trials
- Publication
British Journal of Dermatology, 1988, Vol 119, p22
- ISSN
0007-0963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb05348.x