Collecting images of suspicious-looking skin growths and sending them off-site for specialists to analyze is as accurate in identifying skin cancers as having a dermatologist examine them in person, a ...

Over the last 2 decades, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the genomics, tumor immune microenvironment, and immunogenicity of malignant melanoma. Historically, the prognosis ...

The accuracy of skin cancer diagnosis varied by lesion type, physician specialty and experience, and examination method, with ...

The Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry was ... of high school chemistry in the U.S., its possessions or territories, at the national level. M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in ...

End-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) refers to being in the final stages of the disease. At this stage, you can expect to experience significant shortness of breath even when resting ...

Patients with cutaneous head and neck melanoma had worse locoregional ... In addition, age, Breslow thickness, ulceration, lymphovascular invasion, tumor mitotic rate, and N stage were all ...

Mohs micrographic surgery with melanocytic immunostains was associated with a low risk of local recurrence and disease-specific mortality in patients with early-stage and all-stage invasive cutaneous ...

Researchers evaluated racial and ethnic differences in disease-specific survival and stage at presentation for patients with head and neck cutaneous melanoma. Patients diagnosed with biopsy-confirmed ...

The T stage is based on Breslow's primary tumor depth and ... of an intact epidermis over-lying a major portion of the primary melanoma, based on microscopic examination of the histologic sections.

SLNB is a standard, yet invasive, procedure used to accurately stage melanoma and guide further treatment. Recommended for patients with melanomas that exceed a Breslow thickness of 1.0 mm ...

Wide local excision (WLE) may not provide significant clinical benefits for patients with early-stage malignant melanoma and Breslow thickness may be the only independent predictive factor, ...