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Avaliação do perfil epidemiológico e da mortalidade dos pacientes com diagnóstico de melanoma cutâneo primário no município de Florianópolis - SC, Brasil

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 84; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0365-05962009000400003

1806-4841

Rúbia Battisti, Daniel Holthausen Nunes, Ariana Lebsa Weber, Louise Cardoso Schweitzer, Isadora Sgrott,

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies

Melanoma is the cutaneous cancer which has the greatest lethality. Santa Catarina is the Brazilian State that contributes the most to increase this rate.To estimate the mortality rate of melanoma in the fifth year of illness.The sample comprises 81 reports of primary cutaneous melanoma, in 75 patients, diagnosed in lorianopolis - SC in 2002 and 2003. The protocol of research includes age, sex, patient's color, anatomical location, histological type, degree of invasion, Breslow index, inflammatory reaction, ulceration, regression, angiolymphatic invasion and tumor staging. The patients were contacted by telephone to verify their status (alive, killed by melanoma or dead for another reason). Fisher's exact test and Kaplan-Meier's survival curve were used for the statistical analysis.The patients' profile was: female, white, 51.3 years of age, with invasive melanoma on the trunk and limbs, extensive spreading type, Breslow 2.63 mm. The mortality rate was 7.0%, greater among men (11.1%), Breslow above 4.0 mm (66.0%), with ulceration (33.3%) and stage IV (80.0%). The average survival period was 56.7 months.The mortality rate of primary cutaneous melanoma was 7.0%; ulceration and the final staging were the factors with statistic significance on the result.