Stop routine screening for associated malignancies in cutaneous noninvasive vulvar Paget disease?

Michelle van der LindenM S SchuurmanJ BultenL F A G MassugerJ IntHoutM A van der AaJ A de Hullu

Published in: The British journal of dermatology (2018)

Of our patients with VPD, 76·9% were diagnosed with cutaneous noninvasive VPD, and this group has no increased risk for developing malignancies of the breast, intestine or urological tract. Our study suggests that routine screening for these malignancies in patients diagnosed with cutaneous noninvasive VPD may not be necessary.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
clinical practice
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
early stage
sentinel lymph node
locally advanced