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Klinika Oczna / Acta Ophthalmologica Polonica
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2/2012
vol. 114
 
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Original paper

Assessment of the influence of one’s education on early diagnosis of multiple primary cancer in patients with uveal melanoma

Marzena Mierzwa-Dobranowska
1
,
Bożena Romanowska-Dixon
1

  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Clinic of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland
Online publish date: 2012/06/22
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Purpose
This study will show a comparison of two groups of patients with uveal melanoma; one group with multiple primary cancer, and a second group with no identifiable second cancer, in terms of education and occupation.

Material and methods
Study concerns 240 patients, who were isolated from patients being treated with uveal melanoma at the Department of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology Jagiellonian University Medical College in the period from 1998 to 2007. On the basis of medical history and medical records 97 patients were diagnosed with the one or more independent primary cancers. These patients were subjected to comparative analysis with a group of 143 patients with uveal melanoma as a control group.

Results
Analyzing the impact of education on the recognition of multiple primary cancer, there were significantly more frequent diagnoses of second primary cancers among patients with secondary and higher education than among those who had primary and vocational education. Among the obtained data on patients in the study group, the largest occupational group (according to the ISCO-88 (COM)) constituted “professionals”. In the control group prevailed “craft and related trades workers”.

Conclusions
The results suggest the great importance of knowledge about risk factors for the development of cancer among patients with uveal melanoma and the ensuing more scrupulous search for succesive primary neoplasm and indicate the neccesity of organizing broad prophylactic actions.

keywords:

uveal melanoma, multiple primary cancer

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