Breslow tumor thickness is a major prognostic factor for melanoma. As it based on histopathological evaluation, not available to aid clinical decision making at the time of melanoma diagnosis. In this work, we assessed efficacy multispectral imaging (MSI) predict and developed classification algorithm determine optimal surgical safety margins. First, excluded nevi from analysis with use novel q...

AlphaIFN has recently been recognized as an adjuvant therapy to surgery in melanoma patients. A major issue is to select patients who will benefit from this therapy and to avoid toxicity in those who will not respond. The aim of this exploratory analysis was to identify the predictive factors of response to alphaIFN. The French cooperative group has recently shown that adjuvant therapy of melan...

Background and Objective: The primary goal of this study is to develop a rigorous understanding ofthe correlation between COX-2 expression and malignant melanoma prognostic factors. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we analyzed 60 cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma. The related stained slides were reviewed by two pathologists. The re...

BACKGROUND Melanoma is a skin tumor with the highest mortality, despite representing only 5% of the total. The incidence has increasing all over the world especially among fair-skinned individuals and the Criciuma, with a predominance of Italian ethnic,most susceptible to this type of tumor. OBJECTIVE To know the epidemiological profile and histopathology of primary cutaneous melanoma in Cric...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists as to whether patients with thick (Breslow depth>4 mm), clinically lymph node-negative melanoma require sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy. The authors examined the impact of SLN biopsy on prognosis and outcome in this patient population. METHODS A review of the authors' institutional review board-approved melanoma database identified 293 patients with T4 melanoma ...

HYPOTHESIS Thin primary lesions are largely responsible for the rapid increase in melanoma incidence, making identification of appropriate candidates for nodal staging in this group critically important. We hypothesized that common clinical variables may accurately estimate the risk of nodal metastasis after wide excision and determine the need for sentinel node biopsy. DESIGN Review of prosp...