Disparities between Asian groups in melanoma treatment timeliness: a National Cancer Database (2004-2020) study

The hypothesis was that disparities in time from diagnosis to definitive surgery (TTDS) exist between Asian groups. The National Cancer Database (2004-2020) was used to populate a sample of 1388 Asian patients with melanoma. Adjusting for sociodemographic factors with East Asian patients as the reference group, Southeast and South Asian melanoma patients had around 2.5 times the odds of a TTDS over 90 days.

Table 1. Categorization of Asian ethnicities into regional groups
Table 2. Sample demographics
Table 3. Adjusted odds ratios of multivariable analyses of melanoma treatment timeliness and sociodemographic associations