Publikace na Lékařská fakulta v Plzni |
2023
Abstrakt
The incidence of malignant melanoma is growing worldwide and melanoma is responsible for most skin cancer-related deaths. Patients with melanoma undergo follow-up visits mainly to avoid disease progression.
Moreover, the diagnosis of melanoma has been reported to be a risk factor for subsequent melanoma dvelopment. Tha mojority of parients with Multiple Primary Melanomas (MPM) have two primary tumors and only a small part of themhas three or more Primary Melanomas (MPM) have two primary tumors and only a small part of them has three or more Primary Melanomas (3PM).
The literature is almost exclusively focused on the group of MPM patients as a whole and odes not address patients with more than two primary tumors.