Sentinel lymph node assessment in melanoma: current state and future directions

TW Cheng, E Hartsough, A Giubellino - Histopathology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of sentinel lymph node status is an important step in the evaluation of patients
with melanoma for both prognosis and therapeutic management. Pathologists have an …

[HTML][HTML] How we treat locoregional melanoma

T Troiani, V De Falco, S Napolitano, C Trojaniello… - ESMO open, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Melanoma is the deadliest of skin cancers, although most cases are resectable at
diagnosis.•Use of targeted therapies and immunotherapies as adjuvant treatment …

Development and validation of nomograms to predict local, regional, and distant recurrence in patients with thin (T1) melanomas

MA El Sharouni, T Ahmed, AHR Varey… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Although the prognosis of patients with thin primary cutaneous melanomas
(T1,≤ 1.0 mm) is generally excellent, some develop recurrence. We sought to develop and …

Utility of a model for predicting the risk of sentinel lymph node metastasis in patients with cutaneous melanoma

MA Marchetti, SW Dusza, EK Bartlett - JAMA dermatology, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A neural network-based model (i31-GEP-SLNB) that uses clinicopathologic
factors (thickness, mitoses, ulceration, patient age) plus molecular analysis (31-gene …

[HTML][HTML] The Impact of Clinical and Histopathological Factors on Disease Progression and Survival in Thick Cutaneous Melanomas

DA Țăpoi, D Derewicz, AA Gheorghișan-Gălățeanu… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Thick cutaneous melanomas (Breslow depth> 4 mm) are locally advanced tumors, generally
associated with poor prognosis. Nevertheless, these tumors sometimes display …

[HTML][HTML] Histological regression in melanoma: impact on sentinel lymph node status and survival

K Aivazian, T Ahmed, MA El Sharouni, JR Stretch… - Modern Pathology, 2021 - Elsevier
Regression in melanoma is an immunological phenomenon that results in partial or
complete replacement of the tumor with variably vascular fibrous tissue, often accompanied …

More sentinel lymph node biopsies for thin melanomas after transition to AJCC 8th edition do not increase positivity rate: A Danish population‐based study of 7148 …

MB Weitemeyer, NM Helvind, AM Brinck… - Journal of Surgical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background We evaluated the outcome of sentinel lymph node biopsies (SLNB) in patients
with thin melanoma before and after the implementation of AJCC 8th edition (AJCC8) and …

A nomogram based on a collagen feature support vector machine for predicting the treatment response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer patients

W Jiang, M Li, J Tan, M Feng, J Zheng, D Chen… - Annals of Surgical …, 2021 - Springer
Background The relationship between collagen features (CFs) in the tumor
microenvironment and the treatment response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) is …

Compliance with sentinel lymph node biopsy guidelines for invasive melanomas treated with Mohs micrographic surgery

KM MacArthur, BC Baumann, JF Sobanko, JR Etzkorn… - Cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has not been studied for invasive
melanomas treated with Mohs micrographic surgery using frozen‐section MART‐1 …

Early diagnosis of bipolar disorder coming soon: application of an oxidative stress injury biomarker (BIOS) model

Z Niu, X Wu, Y Zhu, L Yang, Y Shi, Y Wang, H Qiu… - Neuroscience …, 2022 - Springer
Early distinction of bipolar disorder (BD) from major depressive disorder (MDD) is difficult
since no tools are available to estimate the risk of BD. In this study, we aimed to develop and …