Is Access to Care Associated With Stage at Presentation and Survival for Melanoma Patients?

Lacey D PitreGeordie LinfordGregory R PondElaine McWhirterHsien Seow

Published in: Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery (2019)

Our findings strengthen the known association between access to dermatology and melanoma outcomes by linking individual patients' prediagnosis access to care to pathological stage at diagnosis and overall survival.

Keyphrases

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