Week’s top dermatology reads include primary systemic cancers in patients with melanoma

Source: Healio.com/dermatology, December 2015

Study results finding that gastrointestinal cancer was the most common other primary systemic cancer in patients with melanoma was the most read-article of the past week on Healio.com/Dermatology.

Other widely read articles included the announced approval of the $160 billion merger between Pfizer and Allergan, and the FDA granting regular approval for Tafinlar plus Mekinist for treating patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive melanoma.

Gastrointestinal, lung, breast and thyroid were other primary cancers associated with melanoma

Gastrointestinal cancer was the most common other primary systemic cancer in patients with melanoma, according to recently published study results.

Researchers conducted statistical analyses of primary cancers in 452 patients (mean age, 64.4 years; 54% female) identified in a registry of Korean hospitals between Jan. 1, 1994 and Dec. 31, 2013