Prognostic significance of hypopigmentation in malignant melanoma

JC Bystryn, D Rigel, RJ Friedman… - Archives of …, 1987 - jamanetwork.com
• It has been suggested that the presence of cutaneous hypopigmentation favorably
influences the prognosis of patients with malignant melanoma (MM). To examine this
possibility, we have compared the actual with the predicted survival of 46 patients with MM
and hypopigmentation who were among 1130 patients with MM entered in a long-term
prospective study of MM at the New York University Medical Center. The actual average five-
year survival rate of the patients with MM and hypopigmentation (86.3%) was significantly …