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Table 4 Comparison with literature data

From: Quality of life in colon cancer patients with skin side effects: preliminary results from a monocentric cross sectional study

 

SKINDEX-29 SCALES

 

Symptoms

Mean

Emotional

Mean

Functioning

Mean

Metastatic colon cancer patients (45)

43

30

26

Psoriasis (45) [8]*

41

38

22

Eczema (103)

48

41

25

Benign growth (75)

21

21

8

New melanoma cancer (137)

27

20

9

Acne vulgaris (57) [14]**

29

39

15

Psoriasis (44)

42

38

24

Benign lesion (75)

23

21

8

Normative sample (107)

13

9

3

Cutaneus T-cell lymphomas (22) [11]

19

23

24

First diagnosis of cutaneus B-cell lymphomas (24)

15

20

5

First diagnosis of micosis fungoide (59)

25

28

15

First diagnosis of Sezary syndrome (12)

[15]***

70

52

45

  1. () in the brackets the number of patients considered
  2. * data from figure six of the original article
  3. ** data from figure two of the original article
  4. *** data from figure three of the original article