TY - JOUR
T1 - Stage IV melanoma of unknown primary
T2 - A population-based study in the United States from 1973 to 2014
AU - Scott, Jeffrey F.
AU - Conic, Ruzica Z.
AU - Thompson, Cheryl L.
AU - Gerstenblith, Meg R.
AU - Bordeaux, Jeremy S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation. Dr Conic is funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award No. 5 T32 AR 7569-23.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Academy of Dermatology, Inc.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Background: Melanoma of unknown primary (MUP) is incompletely described on a population level. Objective: We sought to characterize stage IV MUP in a population-based cancer registry. Methods: We developed a novel search algorithm to identify cases of stage IV MUP in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18 registries from 1973 to 2014. Cases of stage IV melanoma of known primary (MKP) served as a comparison group. Age-standardized incidence rates, demographic characteristics, adjusted disease-specific survival, and Cox proportional hazard models were calculated for MUP and MKP. Results: A total of 322 stage IV MUP cases and 12,796 stage IV MKP cases were identified in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18 registries from 1973 to 2014. The incidence of stage IV MUP is increasing, particularly for patients younger than 30 years of age. In multivariate analyses, age older than 50 and a lack of surgical treatment were negative prognostic factors for stage IV MUP. Relative survival, but not 5-year adjusted disease-specific survival, was higher for stage IV MUP than for MKP. Limitations: Limitations include the retrospective study design and possible misclassification of MUP. Conclusions: The incidence of stage IV MUP is increasing, and stage IV MUP shares similar prognostic factors with stage IV MKP, including age and surgical treatment.
AB - Background: Melanoma of unknown primary (MUP) is incompletely described on a population level. Objective: We sought to characterize stage IV MUP in a population-based cancer registry. Methods: We developed a novel search algorithm to identify cases of stage IV MUP in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18 registries from 1973 to 2014. Cases of stage IV melanoma of known primary (MKP) served as a comparison group. Age-standardized incidence rates, demographic characteristics, adjusted disease-specific survival, and Cox proportional hazard models were calculated for MUP and MKP. Results: A total of 322 stage IV MUP cases and 12,796 stage IV MKP cases were identified in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18 registries from 1973 to 2014. The incidence of stage IV MUP is increasing, particularly for patients younger than 30 years of age. In multivariate analyses, age older than 50 and a lack of surgical treatment were negative prognostic factors for stage IV MUP. Relative survival, but not 5-year adjusted disease-specific survival, was higher for stage IV MUP than for MKP. Limitations: Limitations include the retrospective study design and possible misclassification of MUP. Conclusions: The incidence of stage IV MUP is increasing, and stage IV MUP shares similar prognostic factors with stage IV MKP, including age and surgical treatment.
KW - Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18
KW - melanoma of unknown primary
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaad.2018.03.021
DO - 10.1016/j.jaad.2018.03.021
M3 - Article
C2 - 29580859
AN - SCOPUS:85049799600
SN - 0190-9622
VL - 79
SP - 258-265.e4
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
IS - 2
ER -