Prognostic Factors for Melanoma
The current melanoma staging system, as defined by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), is the standard by which melanoma prognosis is determined. This article focuses on the components…
Risk Factors for the Development of Primary Cutaneous Melanoma
Melanoma is an important public health problem in the United States and worldwide. The incidence of melanoma continues to increase at a high rate and deaths from melanoma are also…
New Diagnostic Aids for Melanoma
Detection of melanoma at an early stage is crucial to improving survival rates in melanoma. Accurate diagnosis by current techniques including dermatoscopy remains difficult, and new tools are needed to…
Targeted Therapies for Metastatic Melanoma
The next few years may show that when the novel therapeutics reviewed in this article are used in thoughtful combinations, a new standard of care for the treatment of advanced…
Radiation Therapy for Cutaneous Melanoma
Radiation therapy is used infrequently for cutaneous melanoma, despite research suggesting benefit in certain clinical scenarios. This review presents data forming the highest level of evidence supporting the use of…
Mohs Micrographic Surgery for the Treatment of Melanoma
For melanoma treatment, the primary goal is complete removal with histologically negative margins. Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) has been extensively used and studied for the treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancer,…
Surgical Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
Melanoma is currently the fifth and sixth most common solid malignancy diagnosed in men and women, respectively. Although accounting for only 4% of cases of all cutaneous malignancies, melanoma accounts…
The Pathology of Melanoma
Although melanoma represents only 10% of all skin cancer diagnoses, it accounts for at least 65% of all skin cancer–related deaths. The number of new cutaneous melanoma cases projected during…
Biopsy of the Pigmented Lesions
Although new technologies are becoming available to aid in diagnosis, the skin biopsy continues to be the fundamental tool of the dermatologist to evaluate the nature of a pigmented lesion….
Dermatoscopy for Melanoma and Pigmented Lesions
This article presents an overview of the history and development of dermatoscopy over the last 2 decades. The common dermatoscopic diagnostic algorithms are discussed, including classic pattern analysis, the ABCD…
