Why the study?
Does cutaneous angiosarcoma of the scalp have worse survival outcomes compared to angiosarcoma of the face?
Does cutaneous angiosarcoma of the scalp have worse survival outcomes compared to angiosarcoma of the face?
Scalp angiosarcoma is associated with worse survival compared to facial angiosarcoma, potentially due to delayed detection and larger size at presentation.
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Alerts clinicians to poorer scalp angiosarcoma prognosis; leaves open whether size or detection bias drives outcomes.
Scalp angiosarcoma has worse survival than angiosarcoma of the face. Scalp angiosarcoma tends to be larger at presentation, which may be because it is not noticed until more advanced.
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Bernstein et al. (2017) studied this question.
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