Advanced keratinocyte skin cancer is a tumor with considerable disease burden and aggressiveness
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Bassukas, Ioannis D
Tsilidis, Konstantinos K
Spyridonos, Panagiota
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In a 2013 study published in this Journal, Dacosta Byfield et al. used MediCare data to extract reliable estimations of the incidence (I = 6.16) and prevalence (P = 10.31) rates of advanced keratinocyte skin cancer (aKSC) per 100,000 US population. These data unmask a considerable disease burden of aKSC (tumor stages ≥ 3) compared to the corresponding projected SEER predictions in 2019 of all invasive cases (tumor stages ≥ 1). According to its incidence, aKSC ranks 19th out of 29 major SEER registered neoplasms and has an average disease duration of 1.67 years, which is the second shortest disease duration next only to pancreatic carcinoma. Furthermore, in support of the high disease aggressiveness of aKSC and using a calibration approach, we calculated a mortality estimate of 4.64 per 100,000 and a 5-year survival rate of 21.8% for this tumor, which corresponds to positions of 13th and 5th out of 29 cancers among the SEER tracked malignancies, respectively. Taken together, these data indicate a considerable disease burden and biologic aggressiveness of aKSC.
Date Issued
2021-10-01
Date Acceptance
2020-09-12
Citation
Archives of Dermatological Research, 2021, 313, pp.707-709
ISSN
0340-3696
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
707
End Page
709
Journal / Book Title
Archives of Dermatological Research
Volume
313
Copyright Statement
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00403-020-02138-2
Identifier
http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000572317100002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Dermatology
Advanced keratinocyte skin cancer
Incidence
Prevalence
Mortality
5-year survival rate
Basal cell carcinoma
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
SURVIVAL
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-09-23