The eighth edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) melanoma staging system: implications for melanoma treatment and care

EZ Keung, JE Gershenwald - Expert review of anticancer therapy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)
melanoma staging system was implemented in the United States on 1 January 2018. Areas …

Nerve density and neuronal biomarkers in cancer

SR Ali, M Jordan, P Nagarajan, M Amit - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Researchers have shown that tumor biomarkers and increased nerve
density are important clinical tools for determining cancer prognosis and developing …

Malignant melanoma of the vulva and vagina: a US population-based study of 1863 patients

C Wohlmuth, I Wohlmuth-Wieser, T May… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Vulvar melanoma (VuM) and vaginal melanoma (VaM) represent a
unique subgroup of malignant melanomas with important differences in biology and …

Vulvar melanoma: molecular characteristics, diagnosis, surgical management, and medical treatment

C Wohlmuth, I Wohlmuth-Wieser - American journal of clinical dermatology, 2021 - Springer
Ten percent of all women have pigmented vulvar lesions. Fortunately, most of these are
benign but 1% of all melanomas in women affect the vulva. While the mortality rate of …

Vulvar malignant melanoma: Pathogenesis, clinical behaviour and management: Review of the literature

FL Boer, MLG Ten Eikelder, EH Kapiteijn… - Cancer Treatment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vulvar malignant melanoma (VMM) is a rare disease, accounting for 5% of all vulvar
malignancies and is characterized by low survival and high recurrence rates. It is considered …

Sinonasal mucosal melanoma: role of tumor proliferative indices and pathological factors in survival

R Guo, SM Jenkins, BJ Johnson, K Reed… - The …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective of this study is to determine the association of proliferation indices
and pathologic biomarkers on overall and recurrence/metastasis‐free survival (OS and …

Investigating the role of immunotherapy in advanced/recurrent female genital tract melanoma: A preliminary experience

A Indini, L Di Guardo, C Cimminiello… - Journal of …, 2019 - synapse.koreamed.org
Objective immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors has become one of the
standard therapeutic modalities for patients with advanced melanoma. Melanoma of the …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic model for patient survival in primary anorectal mucosal melanoma: stage at presentation determines relevance of histopathologic features

P Nagarajan, J Piao, J Ning, LE Noordenbos, JL Curry… - Modern Pathology, 2020 - Elsevier
Pathological staging of primary anorectal mucosal melanoma is often performed according
to the American Joint Commission on Cancer (AJCC) guidelines for cutaneous melanoma …

Clinicopathological features, staging, and current approaches to treatment in high-risk resectable melanoma

EZ Keung, JE Gershenwald - JNCI: Journal of the National …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of melanoma in the United States has been increasing over the past several
decades. Prognosis largely depends on disease stage, with 5-year melanoma-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Genitourinary melanoma: An overview for the clinician

DK DePalo, KM Elleson, MJ Carr, PE Spiess… - Asian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Genitourinary (GU) melanoma is a rare presentation of melanoma accounting for
approximately 0.5% of all melanomas. GU melanomas include primary melanomas of the …