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Table 3 Treatment strategy, stratified by stage-at-diagnosis

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

  

NHW

HW

Black

Asian/PI

P-value

Melanoma in situ

 In situ

No treatment

3641 (4.2)

109 (5.8)

11 (5.0)

17 (4.2)

0.142

Surgery

83560 (95.3)

1770 (93.8)

210 (95.0)

385 (95.5)

 

Radiation

117 (0.1)

2 (0.1)

0

1 (0.2)

 

Radiation & Surgery

354 (0.4)

6 (0.3)

0

0

 

Superficial spreading melanoma

 Localized

No treatment

1106 (1.4)

38 (2.1)

3 (1.6)

8 (2.5)

0.877

Surgery

76782 (98.0)

1764 (97.5)

183 (97.9)

306 (95.6)

 

Radiation

16 (0.0)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

440 (0.6)

7 (0.4)

1 (0.5)

6 (1.9)

 

 Regional

No treatment

19 (0.4)

0

0

0

0.999

Surgery

4366 (95.4)

142 (96.6)

20 (95.2)

34 (97.1)

 

Radiation

4 (0.1)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

188 (4.1)

5 (3.4)

1 (4.8)

1 (2.9)

 

 Distant

No treatment

15 (4.2)

0

0

0

0.650

Surgery

259 (73.4)

12 (80.0)

1 (50.0)

3 (100.0)

 

Radiation

9 (2.5)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

70 (19.8)

3 (20.0)

1 (50.0)

0

 

Nodular melanoma

 Localized

No treatment

149 (1.3)

5 (1.4)

2 (4.5)

1 (1.2)

0.585

Surgery

11613 (97.5)

344 (98.0)

42 (95.5)

81 (97.6)

 

Radiation

12 (0.1)

0

0

1 (1.2)

 

Radiation & Surgery

137 (1.2)

2 (0.6)

0

0

 

 Regional

No treatment

41 (0.7)

2 (0.7)

0

0

0.571

Surgery

5792 (94.2)

259 (93.8)

39 (95.1)

63 (95.5)

 

Radiation

2 (0.0)

0

0

1 (1.5)

 

Radiation & Surgery

312 (5.1)

15 (5.4)

2 (4.9)

2 (3.0)

 

 Distant

No treatment

42 (5.3)

4 (8.2)

0

0

0.346

Surgery

553 (70.3)

40 (81.6)

11 (73.3)

6 (66.7)

 

Radiation

9 (1.1)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

183 (23.3)

5 (10.2)

4 (26.7)

3 (33.3)

 

Lentigo maligna melanoma

 Localized

No treatment

301 (1.9)

7 (3.0)

1 (2.9)

0

0.986

Surgery

15617 (97.4)

224 (96.6)

33 (97.1)

56 (96.6)

 

Radiation

5 (0.0)

0

0

1 (1.7)

 

Radiation & Surgery

104 (0.6)

1 (0.4)

0

1 (1.7)

 

Regional

No treatment

4 (0.7)

0

1 (12.5)

0

0.759

Surgery

513 (92.9)

8 (100.0)

7 (87.5)

5 (83.3)

 

Radiation

-

-

-

-

 

Radiation & Surgery

35 (6.3)

0

0

1 (16.7)

 

 Distant

No treatment

2 (3.4)

0

0

0

0.992

Surgery

40 (69.0)

1 (100.0)

2 (100.0)

1 (100.0)

 

Radiation

2 (3.4)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

14 (24.1)

0

0

0

 

Acral lentiginous melanoma, malignant

 Localized

No treatment

23 (1.9)

3 (1.6)

5 (3.5)

1 (1.1)

0.841

Surgery

1201 (97.3)

178 (97.8)

138 (96.5)

87 (97.8)

 

Radiation

2 (0.2)

0

0

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

8 (0.6)

1 (0.5)

1 (0.5)

1 (1.1)

 

 Regional

No treatment

3 (0.6)

0

1 (1.8)

0

0.301

Surgery

481 (97.2)

89 (94.7)

54 (94.7)

65 (97.0)

 

Radiation

-

-

-

-

 

Radiation & Surgery

11 (2.2)

5 (5.3)

2 (3.5)

2 (3.0)

 

 Distant

No treatment

1 (1.6)

1 (7.7)

0

0

0.022

Surgery

54 (88.5)

11 (84.6)

7 (70.0)

5 (55.6)

 

Radiation

1 (1.6)

1 (7.7)

0

1 (11.1)

 

Radiation & Surgery

5 (8.2)

0

3 (33.3)

3 (30.0)

 

Malignant melanoma, NOS

 Localized

No treatment

1950 (2.0)

84 (3.3)

14 (4.0)

18 (3.6)

<0.001

Surgery

95929 (97.4)

2425 (96.2)

330 (94.6)

475 (95.6)

 

Radiation

70 (0.1)

0

2 (0.6)

0

 

Radiation & Surgery

591 (0.6)

13 (0.5)

3 (0.9)

4 (0.8)

 

 Regional

No treatment

882 (7.9)

52 (9.4)

2 (1.2)

7 (5.3)

0.010

Surgery

9397 (84.3)

451 (81.7)

153 (92.2)

116 (87.9)

 

Radiation

69 (0.6)

7 (1.3)

1 (0.6)

1 (0.8)

 

Radiation & Surgery

801 (7.2)

42 (7.6)

10 (6.0)

8 (6.1)

 

 Distant

No treatment

2901 (37.5)

175 (44.9)

71 (46.1)

50 (37.6)

<0.001

Surgery

2136 (27.6)

97 (24.9)

51 (33.1)

40 (30.1)

 

Radiation

1192 (15.4)

48 (12.3)

17 (11.0)

25 (18.8)

 

Radiation & Surgery

1501 (19.4)

70 (17.9)

15 (9.7)

18 (13.5)

 
  1. Cancers diagnosed in the period of 1973–2011 in the SEER 18 database. In each cell, count (percentage). P-values were obtained from multivariate logistic regression