Zusammenfassung
Purpose: Many patients with resected American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) early-stage cutaneous melanoma nonetheless die of melanoma; additional risk strat-ification approaches are needed.Patients and methods: Using prospectively-collected whole-tissue sections, we assessed in consecutive stage I-IIA patients (N Z 439), a previously-validated, immunohistochemistry-based, 7-biomarker ...
Zusammenfassung
Purpose: Many patients with resected American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) early-stage cutaneous melanoma nonetheless die of melanoma; additional risk strat-ification approaches are needed.Patients and methods: Using prospectively-collected whole-tissue sections, we assessed in consecutive stage I-IIA patients (N Z 439), a previously-validated, immunohistochemistry-based, 7-biomarker signature to prognosticate disease-free survival (DFS), melanoma-specific survival (MSS; primary end-point) and overall survival (OS), independent of AJCC classification.Results: Seven-marker signature testing designated 25.1% of patients (110/439) as high-risk (stage IA, 13.3% [43/323], IB, 53.2% [42/79], and IIA, 67.6% [25/37]). A Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated high-risk patients to have significantly worse DFS, MSS and OS versus low-risk counterparts (P < 0.001). In multivariable Cox regression modelling also including key clinico-pathological/demographic factors, 7-marker signature data independently prognosticated the studied end-points. Models with the 7-marker signature risk category plus clinicopathological/ demographic covariates substantially outperformed models with clinicopathological/demo-graphic variables alone in predicting all studied outcomes (areas under the receiver operator characteristic curve 74.1% versus 68.4% for DFS, 81.5% versus 71.2% for MSS, 80.9% versus 73.0% for OS; absolute differences 5.7%, 10.3% and 7.9%, respectively, favouring 7-marker signature risk category-containing models). Conclusion: In patients with AJCC early-stage disease, the 7-marker signature reliably prognos-ticates melanoma-related outcomes, independent of AJCC classification, and provides a valu-able complement to clinicopathological/demographic factors.
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