Publication date: Apr 15, 2025
Patients residing 50 miles or farther from a treatment facility exhibited a significantly higher likelihood of advanced-stage melanoma compared with those living within 25 miles (16. 6% vs 11. 2%). The researchers concluded, Age, gender, race/ethnicity, geographic location, socioeconomic factors, and distance to treatment center are associated with advanced melanoma diagnosis. Patients aged younger than 20 years had a higher proportion (17. 9%) of advanced-stage presentations compared with patients aged 70 and older (11. 4%). Researchers analyzed data from 477,914 patients with any stage of melanoma from 2004 to 2015. Men were also more likely to have advanced disease than women (13. 6% vs 10. 4%).
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Annually | Advanced |
| Arizona | Compared |
| Genetic | Diagnosis |
| Medicaid | Factors |
| Socioeconomic | Higher |
| Including | |
| Income | |
| Insurance | |
| Lower | |
| Medicaid | |
| Melanoma | |
| Patients | |
| Presentation | |
| Stage | |
| Treatment |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Melanoma |
| pathway | KEGG | Melanoma |
| disease | MESH | Cancer |
| disease | MESH | causes |
| disease | MESH | comorbidity |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Ethanol |
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