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Surgical Therapy of Cutaneous Melanoma
(Elsevier, 2007)
For most solid tumors, therapy has evolved from surgery alone to a multidisciplinary approach. Malignant melanoma remains an exception, with surgery maintaining the principal role not only for treatment of the primary ...
Review of Evidence-Based Support for Pretreatment Imaging in Melanoma
(2009-03-02)
When making a new diagnosis of melanoma, clinicians often obtain imaging studies to rule out clinically occult distant disease.
These studies range from inexpensive tests, such as chest radiographs, to more expensive ...
The role of the surgeon in the management of melanoma.
(2006)
While multimodality therapy has become the standard for most solid tumors, the mainstay of therapy for melanoma remains surgical. This includes not only early stage disease, but advanced melanoma as well. The surgical ...
Is there a role for sentinel lymph node biopsy in the management of sarcoma?
(Elsevier, 2003)
Is there a role for sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in the management of sarcoma? Sentinel node biopsy has dramatically
changed the management of melanoma and breast cancer, helping surgeons avoid radical lymphadenectomies ...
Is There A Role for Adjuvant High Dose Interferon in the Management of Melanoma
(Adis, 2003)
The knowledge that melanoma is susceptible to attack by the host’s immune system has resulted in the testing of a variety of immunotherapies. Interferon- α-2b, which has several anti-tumour mechanisms including an ...
Current state of treatment for primary cutaneous melanoma.
(2004)
The incidence of malignant melanoma has been rising steadily for the last 30 years. Through physician and patient education, surveillance of high-risk individuals, and biopsy of any suspicious lesions, more lesions are ...
SLN Biopsy for Melanoma: Therapeutic Procedure or Diagnostic Test?
(2007)
Although SLN biopsy is considered standard of care by many surgical oncologists and dermatologists, it remains controversial among others. Clinical practitioners in both surgery and dermatology have used the same available ...
Locoregional therapy of breast cancer: maximizing control, minimizing morbidity
(Future Drugs, Inc., 2006)
The goal of locoregional therapy in breast cancer has remained unchanged for a century: the eradication of all malignant cells from the breast and draining lymph nodes, hopefully prior to them having spread to distant ...