Table 1.
The number of analysed melanoma diagnosis and treatment actions, for a quarter in 2019 and 2020, percentage variation in 2020 in comparison with 2019, for Italy as overall and for north and centre-south Italy.
| Actions | Italy | North | Centre-South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb-Apr 2019 | Feb-Apr 2020 | % | P | % | P | % | P | |
| First visits | 6.711 | 4.613 | -31.3 | <0.01 | -37.0 | <0.01 | -25.6 | <0.01 |
| Biopsies | 4.458 | 2.829 | -36.5 | <0.01 | -26.4 | <0.01 | -46.1 | <0.01 |
| Wide local excision | 1.072 | 827 | -22.9 | <0.01 | -11.5 | <0.01 | -38.5 | <0.01 |
| Sentinel lymph node biopsy | 376 | 400 | +6.4 | 0.90 | +4.2 | 0.72 | +8.2 | 0.89 |
| Overall pathological diagnosis | 3.156 | 2.386 | -24.4 | <0.01 | -14.6 | <0.01 | -33.9 | <0.01 |
| Start new systemic therapy | 409 | 324 | -20.8 | <0.01 | -12.7 | 0.10 | -23.7 | <0.01 |
| Overall patients in therapy | 1.734 | 1.667 | -3.9 | 0.054 | -14.0 | <0.01 | +1.9 | 0.74 |