Gene Expression Analysis Can Help Rule Out Melanoma Among Patients With Skin Of Color, Study Finds

Healio (1/16, Forand) reports, “In patients with Fitzpatrick skin types IV through VI, gene expression analysis can help rule out melanoma, according to a poster presented at the Winter Clinical Dermatology Conference.” In the study, “the negative predictive value of the skin types I to III group was 0.9989, compared with 1 in the skin types IV to VI group. Sensitivity and specificity were also both 90% or greater in each group.”