Advanced-Stage Melanoma at Presentation Following the Peak of the Pandemic: A COVID-19 Cancer Canary in a Coal Mine.

Interestingly a nonsignificant trend was found for longer patient-reported time between patients’ noticing a change in their lesion to initial diagnostic biopsy (5.7 ± 2.0 v 7.1 ± 1.5 months, p = 0.581 ) (Table 3 ).

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Our study of a population of patients treated at an academic medical center, in a region of the USA that was particularly impacted early in the pandemic, identified a significant trend toward thicker melanoma lesions and later stage overall disease associated with the pandemic.

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Second, some of our findings, namely the time between patient-reported lesion change and diagnosis/treatment variables, failed to reach significance due to a lack of power with limited numbers of patients able to recall noticing their lesion change as well as the potential for recall bias.

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