Clinical Study
Health-Care Delay in Malignant Melanoma: Various Pathways to Diagnosis and Treatment
Table 1
Characteristics of included participants: gender related to age, tumor type, tumor thickness, and initial contact clinic.
| Total | All () | Women () | Men () | -value |
| Age (yrs) | | | | | Median | 60.0 | 56.5 | 63.0 | 0.0591 | Range | 30–80 | 30–79 | 32–80 | | ≤60 (%) | 38 (53.5%) | 24 (63.2%) | 14 (42.4%) | 0.0812 | >60 (%) | 33 (46.5%) | 14 (36.8%) | 19 (57.6%) | | Tumor type (%) | | | | | In situ | 22 (31.0%) | 18 (47.0%) | 4 (12.0%) | 0.0062 | SSM | 38 (53.5%) | 15 (40.0%) | 23 (70.0%) | | NM | 11 (15.5%) | 5 (13.0%) | 6 (18.0%) | | Tumor thickness (mm) | | | | | Mean (SD) | 1.01 (1.19) | 0.84 (1.26) | 1.21 (1.09) | | Median (range) | 0.75 (0.00–5.90) | 0.25 (0.00–5.90) | 0.90 (0.00–4.10) | 0.0231 | ≤0.70 (%) | 35 (49.3%) | 23 (60.5%) | 12 (36.4%) | 0.0422 | >0.70 (%) | 36 (50.7%) | 15 (39.5%) | 21 (63.6%) | | Initial contact clinic (%) | | | | | PHCs | 53 (74.6%) | 30 (78.9%) | 23 (69.7%) | 0.3722 | Derm | 18 (25.4%) | 8 (21.1%) | 10 (30.3%) | |
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Mann-Whitney test. 2Chi-square test. SSM: superficial spreading melanoma, NM: nodular melanoma, PHCs: primary health-care centres, Derm: dermatological and other specialist clinics.
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