RT Book, Section
A1 Balch, Charles M.
A1 Sharma, Rohit R.
A1 Balch, Glen C.
A1 Thompson, John F.
A2 Morita, Shane Y.
A2 Balch, Charles M.
A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne
A2 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A2 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145755771
T1 Melanoma Staging
T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793315
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145755771
RD 2024/04/19
AB Revisions  to  the  melanoma  staging  system  were  published  in  the  seventh  edition  of  the  American  Joint  Committee  on  Cancer  manual  (AJCC  Cancer  Staging  Manual)  in  2009  and  were  implemented  in  January  2010.1-3  The  latest  TNM  criteria  and  stage  groupings  are  shown  in  Tables  12-1  and  12-2,  while  survival  rates  according  to  disease  stage  are  shown  in  Figure  12-1.  In  addition,  we  have  published  updated  analyses  on  mitotic  rate,  as  well  as  the  prognostic  significance  of  patient  age  and  the  sentinel  lymph  node  biopsy  (SLNB),  in  determining  accurate  staging  for  clinically  occult  nodal  metastases.4-7  This  chapter  incorporates  material  from  the  seventh  edition  of  the  AJCC  Cancer  Staging  Manual  published  in  2009,  as  well  as  a  recent  book  chapter,  along  with  the  updated  materials  published  since  then.1,8