Researchers investigated if the clinical outcome of patients with cutaneous melanoma could be impacted by very early timing of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) post-resection of the primary tumour, or by timing of complete lymph node dissection (CLND) following SLNB, vs longer time intervals. Experts analyzed a cohort comprising 896 patients with melanoma who had undergone SLNB.
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What is the accuracy of reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) for the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma (MM) or melanoma in situ (MiS) in adults?
Source: Cochrane Library, September 2020 Reviewers identified eight studies (9 evaluations, 1452 lesions, 370 cases of MM/MiS) that assessed the diagnostic accuracy of RCM, most commonly using histology as the…
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Most participants were people with coronary artery disease who had enrolled in trials of statin monotherapy primarily evaluating cardiovascular endpoints.
Occupation and cutaneous melanoma: A 45-year historical cohort study of 14·9 million people in five Nordic countries
Since few prospective population?based studies have estimated the occupational variation in cutaneous melanoma (CM) risk over time, researchers sought to determine occupational variation in CM risk.