Risk of death for some melanomas less than 1%: Study

Source: NewsGP, November 2022

Research published in CANCER has found evidence that some cases of melanoma are much less likely to cause death, with one subset of patients – comprising a quarter of the study’s 11,592 participants – found to have a less than 1% risk of dying.

The study is the latest in a slew of new research investigating ‘non-harmful melanomas’ and has renewed concerns regarding overdiagnosis, but GP and skin cancer expert Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Hudson says the new findings should not prompt a change in clinical practice.

‘Overdiagnosis is a very poorly defined word in general,’ he said.
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