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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Assessment of the Predictive Value of Spectrophotometric Skin Color Parameters and Environmental and Behavioral Factors in Estimating the Risk of Skin Cancer: A Case-Control Study.

Marta Fijałkowska, Mateusz Koziej, Elżbieta Żądzińska, Bogusław Antoszewski, Aneta Sitek

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marta FijałkowskaDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-419 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9259-2573
Mateusz KoziejDepartment of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-008 Cracow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2635-0776
Elżbieta ŻądzińskaDepartment of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-136 Lodz, Poland.
Bogusław AntoszewskiDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 90-419 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3197-8223
Aneta SitekDepartment of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-136 Lodz, Poland.
Medical University of Lodz · PLUniversity of Łódź · PLJagiellonian University · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Keratinocyte carcinomas are the most common cancers with different etiological risk factors. The aim of this study was to assess the predictive value of spectrophotometric parameters of skin color in correlation with environmental/behavioral factors to estimate the risk of skin cancer. The case-control study involved 389 patients. The analysis was performed on the training group to build a predictive model and on the testing group to check the quality of the designed model. Area under the curve based on the spectrophotometric skin parameters varied from 0.536 to 0.674. A statistically significant improvement of the area under curve was achieved by adding the number of sunburns for some models. The best single spectrophotometric measurement for estimating skin cancer is the skin melanin index measured on the arm or buttock. Spectrophotometric skin parameters are not very strong but are essential elements of models for estimating the risk of skin cancer. The most important environmental/behavioral factor seems to be the number of sunburns, but not the total exposure to ultraviolet radiation or usage of photoprotectors. Some other pigmentation predictors should be taken into account when creating new models, especially those that can be easily measured in objective and repeatable way. Spectrophotometric measurements can be employed as quick screening skin examination method.

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predictive factorpredictive modelskin cancerspectrophotometry

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