Melanoma survival rates high in children, adolescents

Source: Healio, January 2023

Melanoma survival rates in children and adolescent patients were around 90% or higher, according to a study.

“Melanoma in the first two decades of life is uncommon and poorly understood,” Mary-Ann El Sharouni, MD, PhD, of the Melanoma Institute Australia at

The University of Sydney and of the department of dermatology at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands, and colleagues wrote.
In the pooled cohort study, El Sharouni and colleagues assessed clinicopathologic features and survival for melanoma in children aged 11 years or younger and adolescents aged 12 to 19 years.
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