Red flags for repeated melanomas
Source: Medical Republic, November 2022
People with a greater number of moles and a genetic predisposition to melanoma are at the highest risk of developing a second primary melanoma, according to a new study.
Findings of a population-based prospective cohort study have revealed that a second case of primary melanoma was more likely to occur in patients with a high genetic predisposition to skin cancer and in those with many moles at age 21.
Second primary melanoma was also more strongly associated with a history of multiple skin cancer excisions than first melanomas, the study of almost 40,000 middle-aged Queenslanders found.