Abstract
BACKGROUND: Deevelopment of new diagnostics and treatment of malignant neoplasms methods increase their efficiency, and safety is one of the most urgent tasks of modern oncology. Currently, targeted and immunotherapy contributes to the treatment of malignant neoplasms. One of the examples is the treatment of skin melanoma.
AIMS: This study aimed to investigate the influence of therapeutic tactics on epidemiological indicators in the morbidity of the skin melanoma.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study used data of the Krasnoyarsk territory cancer-register.
RESULTS: In the Krasnoyarsk territory from 2016 to 2020 registered 65,042 cases of malignant neoplasms, of which 30,532 cases (46.9%) reported among men and 34,510 cases (53.1%) among women. In the same period, registered 899 cases of skin melanoma, 343 cases among men (38.2%) and 556 cases among women (61.8%). The most important stage in the treatment of skin melanoma is the disease stage, because only favorable prognosis characteristic for early stages of the disease.
CONCLUSIONS: Routine using modern antitumor drug therapy in everyday clinical practice has significantly changed the results of skin melanoma treatment.
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