Gajda Maksymilian, Kaminska-Winciorek Grazyna
Clinical Oncology Ward, Starkiewicz Specialised Hospital, Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland E-mail :
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2014;15(9):3873-7. doi: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.9.3873.
Melanoma of the skin is a malignant tumor, which incidence is still increasing. It was estimated that in the United States one person died from this cause every hour. The major risk factor of this disease is exposure to ultraviolet radiation, especially associated with the occurrence of sunburns. Patients diagnosed with distant metastases have median survival of 6-9 months. The aim of this paper was to identify the causes of delayed diagnosis of melanoma as diagnosis at an early stage seems to be the key to improve the survival rates. For this purpose, a search of medical databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar and Cancer Registers was conducted and an analysis of the literature from the years 1979-2013 was conducted.
皮肤黑色素瘤是一种恶性肿瘤，其发病率仍在上升。据估计，在美国每小时就有一人死于该病。这种疾病的主要风险因素是暴露于紫外线辐射，尤其是与晒伤的发生有关。被诊断为远处转移的患者中位生存期为6至9个月。本文的目的是确定黑色素瘤延迟诊断的原因，因为早期诊断似乎是提高生存率的关键。为此，对PubMed、谷歌学术和癌症登记处等医学数据库进行了检索，并对1979年至2013年的文献进行了分析。
