Charles M. Balch, MD, Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Dermatology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, reviewed the current version of the melanoma staging as well as new data on staging and prognosis contained in the 2008 version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Melanoma Staging Schema. The final version of the melanoma staging criteria are embargoed until May 2009 and implem...
