Sites of distant metastasis in Merkel cell carcinoma differ by primary tumor site and are of prognostic significance: A population-based study in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database from 2010 to 2016

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Feb;84(2):568-570. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.08.023. Epub 2020 Aug 8.

Authors

Nolan J Maloney¹, Kevin A Nguyen², Daniel Q Bach², Lisa C Zaba³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
³ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California.

PMID: 32781190
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.08.023

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
Bone Neoplasms / mortality
Bone Neoplasms / secondary*
Brain Neoplasms / mortality
Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell / mortality
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell / secondary*
Female
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Liver Neoplasms / mortality
Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
Lung Neoplasms / mortality
Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
Male
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
SEER Program / statistics & numerical data
Sex Factors
Skin / pathology
Skin Neoplasms / mortality
Skin Neoplasms / pathology*
United States / epidemiology
White People / statistics & numerical data