Higher rates of metastatic melanoma affect Southeast Asian patients
Source: Healio, March 2023
NEW ORLEANS — Among Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups, Southeast Asians had higher rates of metastatic and acral lentiginous melanoma and higher rates of ulceration, according to a presentation here.
“Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are a diverse, rapidly growing population in the United States,” Angela H. Wei, BD, of the department of dermatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues wrote in a poster presented at the Skin of Color Society Scientific Symposium. “Few studies have characterized melanoma presentation in AAPI populations, and those that do are limited by small cohort size and have reported AAPI as a singular racial group.”
Researchers analyzed cases of malignant melanoma in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Specialized Asian American and Pacific Islander Database, which included data for East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations. These data were collected from 1994 to 2014.