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A new American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for cutaneous melanoma

✍ Scribed by Charles M. Balch; Antonio C. Buzaid; Michael B. Atkins; Natale Cascinelli; Daniel G. Coit; Irvin D. Fleming; Alan Houghton Jr.; John M. Kirkwood; Martin F. Mihm; Donald L. Morton; Douglas Reintgen; Merrick I. Ross; Arthur Sober; Seng-Jaw Soong; John A. Thompson; John F. Thompson; Jeffrey E. Gershenwald; Kelly M. McMasters; for the AJCC Melanoma Staging Committee

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 78 KB
Volume: 88
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(20000315)88:6<1484::aid-cncr29>3.0.co;2-d

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✦ Synopsis

O ver the past 2 decades, the principal clinical and pathologic fea- tures of melanoma that predict the risk of metastasis and survival rates have been delineated. The dominant independent prognostic factors involving melanoma patients treated throughout the world 1484

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