The relative contribution of the decreasing trend in tumour thickness to the 2010s increase in net survival from cutaneous malignant melanoma in Italy: a population-based investigation

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Background: The long-term increase in survival from cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is generally attributed to the decreasing trend in tumour thickness, the single most important prognostic factor.

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19 Settembre 2024

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Zamagni F, Bucchi L, Mancini S, Crocetti E, Dal Maso L, Ferretti S, Biggeri A, Villani S,
Baldacchini F, Giuliani O, Ravaioli A, Vattiato R, Brustolin A, Candela G, Carone S, Carrozzi
G, Cavallo R, Dinaro YM, Ferrante M, Iacovacci S, Mazzoleni G, Musolino A, Rizzello RV,
Serraino D, Stracci F, Tumino R, Masini C, Ridolfi L, Palmieri G, Stanganelli I, Falcini F;
AIRTUM Working Group.

Br J Dermatol. 2022 Jul;187(1):52-63. doi: 10.1111/bjd.21051. Epub 2022 May 31.
PMID: 35253204 Free PMC article.

 

Background: The long-term increase in survival from cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is generally attributed to the decreasing trend in tumour thickness, the single most important prognostic factor.

Objectives: To determine the relative contribution of decreased tumour thickness to the favourable trend in survival from CMM in Italy.

Methods: Eleven local cancer registries covering a population of 8 056 608 (13.4% of the Italian population in 2010) provided records for people with primary CMM registered between 2003 and 2017. Age-standardized 5-year net survival was calculated. Multivariate analysis of 5-year net survival was undertaken by calculating the relative excess risk (RER) of death. The relative contribution of the decrease in tumour thickness to the RER of death was evaluated using a forward stepwise flexible parametric survival model including the available prognostic factors.

Results: Over the study period, tumour thickness was inversely associated with 5-year net survival and multivariate RER in both sexes. The median thickness was 0.90 mm in 2003-2007, 0.85 mm in 2008-2012 and 0.75 mm in 2013-2017 among male patients, and 0.78 mm, 0.77 mm and 0.68 mm among female patients, respectively. The 5-year net survival was 86.8%, 89.2% and 93.2% in male patients, and 91.4%, 92.0% and 93.4% in female patients, respectively. In 2013-2017, male patients exhibited the same survival as female patients despite having thicker lesions. For them, the increasing survival trend was more pronounced with increasing thickness, and the inclusion of thickness in the forward stepwise model made the RER in 2013-2017 vs. 2003-2007 increase from 0.64 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.51-0.80] to 0.70 (95% CI 0.57-0.86). This indicates that the thickness trend accounted for less than 20% of the survival increase. For female patients, the results were not significant but, with multiple imputation of missing thickness values, the RER rose from 0.74 (95% CI 0.58-0.93) to 0.82 (95% CI 0.66-1.02) in 2013-2017.

Conclusions: For male patients in particular, decrease in tumour thickness accounted for a small part of the improvement in survival observed in 2013-2017. The introduction of targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors in 2013 is most likely to account for the remaining improvement.

 

Pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35253204/

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