Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Surgical Oncology joint clinical practice guideline

SL Wong, CM Balch, P Hurley, SS Agarwala… - Journal of Clinical …, 2012 - ascopubs.org
Purpose The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Society of Surgical
Oncology (SSO) sought to provide an evidence-based guideline on the use of lymphatic …

Management of cutaneous melanoma

H Tsao, MB Atkins, AJ Sober - New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 - Mass Medical Soc
Cutaneous melanoma remains a management challenge. This year an estimated 55,000
Americans will receive a diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma, and 7900 will die from the …

Guidelines of care for the management of primary cutaneous melanoma

CK Bichakjian, AC Halpern, TM Johnson… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - Elsevier
The incidence of primary cutaneous melanoma has been increasing dramatically for several
decades. Melanoma accounts for the majority of skin cancer–related deaths, but treatment is …

Clinicopathologic predictors of sentinel lymph node metastasis in thin melanoma

D Han, JS Zager, YU Shyr, H Chen, LD Berry… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Indications for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for thin melanoma are
continually evolving. We present a large multi-institutional study to determine factors …

Melanoma, version 2.2013: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

DG Coit, R Andtbacka, CJ Anker, CK Bichakjian… - Journal of the National …, 2013 - jnccn.org
The NCCN Guidelines for Melanoma provide multidisciplinary recommendations on the
clinical management of patients with melanoma. This NCCN Guidelines Insights report …

Mitotic rate as a predictor of sentinel lymph nodepositivity in patients with thin melanomas

SB Kesmodel, GC Karakousis, JD Botbyl… - Annals of surgical …, 2005 - Springer
Background Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy (LM/SL) provide important
prognostic information for patients with early-stage melanoma. Although the use of this …

The impact of factors beyond Breslow depth on predicting sentinel lymph node positivity in melanoma

SC Paek, KA Griffith, TM Johnson, VK Sondak… - Cancer, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. In addition to Breslow depth, the authors previously described how
increasing mitotic rate and decreasing age predicted sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases …

Melanoma

DG Coit, R Andtbacka, CK Bichakjian… - Journal of the National …, 2009 - jnccn.org
Melanoma Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology NCCN Categories of Evidence and
Consensus Category 1: The recommendation is based on high-level evidence (eg …

A nomogram that predicts the presence of sentinel node metastasis in melanoma with better discrimination than the American Joint Committee on CancerStaging …

SL Wong, MW Kattan, KM McMasters… - Annals of surgical oncology, 2005 - Springer
Background The threshold and indications for sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in patients
with melanoma remain somewhat arbitrary. Many variables associated with SLN positivity …

Importance of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with thin melanoma

BE Wright, RP Scheri, X Ye, MB Faries… - Archives of …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Hypothesis The status of the sentinel node (SN) confers important prognostic information for
patients with thin melanoma. Design, Setting, and Patients We queried our melanoma …