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Table 4 Five-year relative survival rates, stratified by stage-at-diagnosis

From: Racial differences in six major subtypes of melanoma: descriptive epidemiology

 

Total

NHW

HW

Black

Asian/PI

P-value

Melanoma in situ

 In situ

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

0.380

Superficial spreading melanoma

 Localized

99.2 (98.9–99.4)

99.0 (98.7–99.2)

98.2 (96.1–99.2)

100.0

94.0 (87.7–97.1)

0.844

 Regional

71.5 (69.7–73.2)

71.4 (69.6–73.2)

74.1 (62.9–82.4)

67.5 (33.5–86.8)

60.7 (40.0–76.3)

0.623

 Distant

33.8 (27.7–40.0)

33.0 (26.7–39.5)

46.8 (18.1–71.4)

0.0

33.7 (0.9–77.9)

0.987

Nodular melanoma

 Localized

80.6 (79.5–81.7)

80.6 (79.4–81.7)

79.7 (72.4–85.4)

63.9 (39.0–80.8)

72.9 (56.8–83.8)

0.403

 Regional

55.1 (53.4–56.7)

55.3 (53.6–57.0)

47.6 (39.5–55.1)

46.5 (24.7–65.7)

62.9 (46.9–75.3)

0.119

 Distant

17.1 (13.9–20.6)

16.2 (12.9–19.7)

34.4 (17.6–51.9)

27.1 (4.9–56.8)

13.3 (0.7–44.3)

0.101

Lentigo maligna melanoma

 Localized

100.0

100.0

97.3 (61.0–99.8)

100.0

96.1 (53.3–99.8)

0.697

 Regional

73.2 (65.6–79.4)

75.6 (67.7–81.8)

58.1 (3.7–91.5)

19.1 (0.8–56.9)

31.7 (0.7–76.9)

0.151

 Distant

26.1 (11.3–43.8)

24.2 (9.5–42.4)

0.0

69.4 (0.0–99.2)

0.0

0.508

Acral lentiginous melanoma, malignant

 Localized

96.0 (92.6–97.8)

97.5 (92.4–99.2)

95.0 (75.3–99.1)

91.9 (74.9–97.6)

87.4 (70.7–94.9)

0.266

 Regional

58.4 (52.9–63.5)

60.3 (53.5–66.5)

50.6 (37.0–62.7)

49.8 (29.3–67.3)

62.1 (44.5–75.5)

0.447

 Distant

15.8 (7.7–26.5)

13.8 (4.8–27.5)

12.0 (0.7–40.7)

28.7 (4.9–59.7)

20.3 (0.8–58.8)

0.651

Malignant melanoma, NOS

 Localized

97.3 (97.1–97.6)

97.2 (96.9–97.5)

95.6 (93.7–96.9)

86.0 (78.2–91.1)

93.1 (88.6–95.9)

0.013

 Regional

61.1 (59.8–62.2)

61.4 (60.2–62.7)

57.0 (51.4–62.2)

48.1 (37.7–57.7)

53.8 (42.8–63.6)

0.007

 Distant

14.3 (13.4–15.3)

14.1 (13.1–15.1)

17.0 (12.5–22.1)

16.4 (9.7–24.6)

9.6 (4.6–16.7)

0.501

  1. Cancers diagnosed in the period of 1973–2006 and followed up to 12/31/2011 in the SEER 18 database. In each cell, estimated rate (95 % CI). P-values were obtained from multivariate Cox regression