Publications by authors named "Priyanka Gumaste"
Objectives: The impact of ethnicity and the socioeconomic status (SES) among Caucasians is not well studied. Here, we examine the impact of income on melanoma presentation and prognosis within a Caucasian cohort, accounting for ethnicity, as some reports suggest increased melanoma incidence in Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) BRCA mutation carriers.
Methods: We studied prospectively enrolled primary melanoma patients at New York University.
Background: Acral lentiginous melanoma has increased mortality compared with other melanoma subtypes and disproportionately affects ethnic minorities. Acral melanocytic lesions have not been well studied in diverse populations of the United States.
Objective: We sought to assess the prevalence, awareness, and dermoscopic patterns of acral melanocytic lesions in skin-of-color and non-Hispanic white patients.
The incidence of cutaneous melanoma is rising faster than that of almost any other cancer in the United States. Acral lentiginous melanoma is a subtype of melanoma that involves the palms, soles, and nail beds. Although it is one of the rarer types of melanoma, it has a poorer prognosis than other more common subtypes.
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- Some types of melanoma, like acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM), are harder to treat than others and have a worse outlook.
- A study compared patients with ALM to those with other types of melanoma to see how well they responded to the same treatments.
- The results showed that ALM patients had more relapses and a higher chance of their cancer coming back than patients with other types of melanoma, especially when their tumors were smaller than 2 mm.
Basaloid follicular hamartoma (BFH) is a rare, generally benign lesion of importance because of its clinical and histopathological similarity to infundibulocystic basal cell carcinoma. Autosomal dominant generalized BFH syndrome is 1 of the 5 clinical forms of BFH that has been described in the literature. We report a case of BFH syndrome in a 47-year-old Hispanic female who presented with an increasing number of small 1- to 2-mm tan to brown smooth facial papules, few palmar pits, and cobblestoning of the tongue.
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