Clinical and histologic characteristics of malignant melanoma in families with a germline mutation in CDKN2A

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• 作者：Jasper I. van der Rhee MD^a ; ^{j.i.van_der_rhee@lumc.nl"" rel=""nofollow} ; Pieta Krijnen PhD^d ; Nelleke A. Gruis PhD^a ; Femke A. de Snoo MD ; PhD^a ; ^b ; Hans F.A. Vasen MD ; PhD^e ; Hein Putter PhD^c ; Nicole A. Kukutsch MD ; PhD^a ; Wilma Bergman MD ; PhD^a
• 关键词：age of onset ; dysplastic nevus syndrome ; familial atypical multiple mole melanoma ; genes ; p16 ; histology ; melanoma ; neoplasms ; multiple primary
• 刊名：Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：August 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：65
• 期：2
• 页码：281-288
• 全文大小：128 K

文摘

Background

About 10 % of cutaneous malignant melanomas (CMM) occur in individuals with a family history of melanoma. In 20 % to 40 % of melanoma families germline mutations in CDKN2A are detected. Knowledge of the clinicohistologic characteristics of melanomas and patients from these families is important for optimization of management strategies, and may shed more light on the complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of melanoma.

Objective

We sought to investigate the clinical and histologic characteristics of CMM in CDKN2A-mutated families.

Methods

Clinical and histologic characteristics of 182 patients with 429 CMM from families with a founder mutation in CDKN2A (p16-Leiden mutation) were compared with 7512 patients with 7842 CMM from a population-based cancer registry.

Results

Patients with p16-Leiden had their first melanoma 15.3 years younger than control patients. The 5-year cumulative incidence of second primary CMM was 23.4 % for patients with p16-Leiden compared with 2.3 % for control patients. The risk of a second melanoma was twice as high for patients with p16-Leiden who had their first melanoma before age 40 years, compared with older patients with p16-Leiden. Unlike control patients, there was no body site concordance of the first and second melanoma in patients with p16-Leiden and multiple primary melanomas. Patients with p16-Leiden had significantly more superficial spreading, and less nodular and lentiginous melanomas.

Limitations

Ascertainment of patients with p16-Leiden was family based. The study was performed in families with a founder mutation, the p16-Leiden mutation.

Conclusion

Our findings are consistent with a pathogenic pathway of melanoma development from nevi, starting early and ongoing throughout life, and not related to chronic sun exposure.