Black patients with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) experience a significantly longer time from diagnosis to definitive surgical treatment (TTDS) compared with non-Hispanic White patients with MCC, according to study findings published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

This retrospective study included 26,237 patients with MCC who were registered in the National Cancer Database from 2004 to 2015. 

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