TY - JOUR
AU - Schadendorf, D.
AB - Research letter Actual practice of melanoma follow-up and As patients were not randomly selected, all data should be treatment in Germany: results of a considered exploratory. Missing data were not substituted; prospective, longitudinal cohort study implausible data were recorded as ‘missing’. The v -test was used to test for differences between groups for categorical DOI: 10.1111/bjd.13612 variables, and the Wilcoxon test for continuous variables. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to DEAR EDITOR, Approximately 17 800 cutaneous invasive mela- investigate factors associated with the surveillance frequency nomas and 5000 melanomas in situ were detected in 2008 in of patients with stage I disease. Factors significant at the Germany, and incidence trends show a threefold increase over P < 0
05 level in univariate analyses were included in a step- the last 30 years, while mortality remained at a constant wise multivariate regression analysis. All analyses were per- level. Unlike in many other countries, melanoma treatment formed using SAS statistical software v.9.2 (SAS Inc, Cary, in Germany (including surgical and systemic procedures) is NC, U.S.A.). primarily in the hands of dermatologists specialized in der- Follow-up data were available for 1006 patients (Table 1). mato-oncology. Overall 948 (94
2%) were documented as being 
TI - Actual practice of melanoma follow‐up and treatment in Germany: results of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study
JF - British Journal of Dermatology
DO - 10.1111/bjd.13612
DA - 2015-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/actual-practice-of-melanoma-follow-up-and-treatment-in-germany-results-Ee1w9uzUpE
SP - 1646
EP - 1650
VL - 172
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -