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Purpose To report uveal melanoma (UM) before the age of 25 years in Finland, a high incidence region for this cancer.
Methods A population‐based study identified 24 patients (0.3%), aged between 13 and 24 years at diagnosis, treated in our hospital in 1963‐2006. They were divided in two groups, the first consisted of 11 patients (9 females, 2 males) enucleated before 1997. The second was treated by...
Purpose To study whether immunoreactivity for the insulin‐like growth factor‐1 receptor (IGF‐IRα) independently predicts metastasis of primary uveal melanoma in a consecutive Finnish data set.
Methods Population‐based, retrospective cohort study of 167 choroidal and ciliary body melanomas enucleated from 1972 to 1981 with long‐term survival data. Immunostaining was done by using the avidin‐biotinylated...