Various Dermatoses What the Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma Had Anxiety for the Recurrence during Postoperative Surveillance.

BACKGROUND

The incidence and mortality rates associated with cutaneous melanoma (CM) have steadily increased over the last 20 years. Even with successful treatment, melanoma patients usually experience substantial anxiety regarding the development of terrible recurrence. To date, few studies have investigated various ().

OBJECTIVE

To describe various and to evaluate the risk of subsequent malignant skin disease in patients with CM.

METHODS

We performed a prospective study between August 2002 and August 2015.

RESULTS

Fifty-six patients presented with a total of 68 . Among them, melanocytic nevus was the most common (n=27), followed by seborrheic keratosis (n=9) and CM recurrence (n=7). Approximately 5.6% of the lesions were diagnosed as malignant skin diseases. This was a single-center study, so the prevalence of malignant skin diseases following primary melanoma may not represent that of all patients with CM.

CONCLUSION

The results of this study can be referred by dermatologists dealing with melanoma especially when CM patients have too excessive or unrealistic anxiety for melanoma recurrence during postoperative surveillance of CM. However, the importance of postoperative surveillance must still be emphasized because of real risk of melanoma recurrence and other malignant skin.