Is the survival rate for acral melanoma actually worse than other cutaneous melanomas?

Long-term relative survival from melanoma in Germany 1997–2013

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Acral lentiginous melanoma versus other melanoma: A single-center analysis in Japan

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Epidemiology of cutaneous melanoma in Sweden-Stage-specific survival and rate of recurrence

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Association Between Race/Ethnicity and Survival of Melanoma Patients in the United States Over 3 Decades

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Current Staging and Prognostic Factors in Melanoma

(2015) Edmund K. Bartlett et al.   Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America

Site distribution of cutaneous melanoma in South Korea: a retrospective study at a single tertiary institution

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Prognosis of Acral Melanoma: A Series of 281 Patients

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Genetic and morphologic features for melanoma classification

(2010) Sigrid M. C. Broekaert et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma

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Final Version of 2009 AJCC Melanoma Staging and Classification

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