Higher disease-specific mortality in Black patients with dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans in the United States

Int J Dermatol. 2024 Oct;63(10):e268-e270. doi: 10.1111/ijd.17199. Epub 2024 May 3.

Authors

Bianca E Ituarte^#^{1

2}, Mitchell A Taylor^#^{1

3}, Megan Wackel¹, Sierra Thomas^{1

4}, Divya Sharma¹, Erin X Wei¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
² School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA.
⁴ School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 38702864
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.17199

No abstract available

Keywords: DFSP; cutaneous oncology; dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans; health outcomes; racial disparities.

Publication types

Letter