Dermatologic Oncology News & Articles

1 Notch signaling mediates melanoma-endothelial cell communication and melanoma cell migration Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, June 19, 2013    Review Article

2 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography Imaging in the Management of Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Single-Institution Retrospective Study Dermatologic Surgery, June 19, 2013    Review Article

3 Suggested excisional margins for cutaneous malignant lesions based on mohs micrographic surgery JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, June 19, 2013    Review Article

4 Cytoplasmic vacuoles: Clue in the fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of melanoma Diagnostic Cytopathology, June 19, 2013    Clinical Article

5 Patients undergoing lymphadenectomy for stage III melanomas of known or unknown primary site do not differ in outcome International Journal of Cancer, June 19, 2013    Clinical Article

6 Geography of non-melanoma skin cancer and ecological associations with environmental risk factors in England British Journal of Cancer, June 19, 2013    Clinical Article

7 Survivin promotion of melanoma metastasis requires upregulation of {alpha}5 integrin Carcinogenesis, June 19, 2013    Review Article

8 Peroxiredoxin-2 represses melanoma metastasis by increasing E-cadherin/β-catenin complexes in adherens junctions Cancer Research, June 18, 2013    Clinical Article

9 Systematic review and meta-analysis of liver resection for metastatic melanoma British Journal of Surgery, June 18, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

10 Primary cutaneous CD4+ small to medium-size pleomorphic T-cell lymphoma in a 12-year-old girl Pediatric Dermatology, June 18, 2013

11 Telomere length and risk of melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and basal cell carcinoma Cancer Epidemiology, June 17, 2013

12 Primary cutaneous marginal zone lymphomas with plasmacytic differentiation show frequent IgG4 expression Modern Pathology, June 17, 2013    Clinical Article

13 Is complete lymph node dissection after a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma always necessary? A meta-analysis European Journal of Surgical Oncology, June 17, 2013    Evidence Based Medicine    Review Article

14 Desmoplastic melanoma: A 12-year experience with sentinel lymph node biopsy European Journal of Surgical Oncology, June 17, 2013    Review Article

15 Predictive gene signature in MAGE-A3 antigen-specific cancer immunotherapy Journal of Clinical Oncology, June 13, 2013    Clinical Article

16 Developing a common language for tumor response to immunotherapy: immune-related response criteria using unidimentional measurements Clinical Cancer Research, June 13, 2013    Clinical Article

17 Ras, raf, and map kinase in melanoma Advances in Anatomic Pathology , June 12, 2013    Review Article

18 PET/CT images of bilateral diffuse intraglomerular metastasis of malignant melanoma Clinical Nuclear Medicine , June 12, 2013

19 Exposure-response relationships of the efficacy and safety of ipilimumab in patients with advanced melanoma Clinical Cancer Research, June 10, 2013    Clinical Article

20 A cutaneous lymphoma international prognostic index (CLIPi) for mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome European Journal of Cancer, June 10, 2013    Clinical Article

1 Four-year survival rates for patients with metastatic melanoma who received ipilimumab in phase II clinical trials Annals of Oncology, May 14, 2013

2 A randomized phase II trial of multi-epitope vaccination with melanoma peptides for cytotoxic T-cells and helper T-cells for patients with metastatic melanoma (E1602) Clinical Cancer Research, May 13, 2013

3 Anorectal and genital mucosal melanoma is associated with cutaneous melanoma in patients and in families British Journal of Dermatology, May 16, 2013

4 Predicting Disease Progression After Regional Therapy for In-Transit Melanoma Disease Progression After Regional Therapy JAMA Surgery, April 9, 2013    Review Article

5 Photodynamic therapy versus topical imiquimod versus topical fluorouracil for treatment of superficial basal-cell carcinoma: a single blind, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial The Lancet Oncology, May 16, 2013

6 Phase II study of the Src kinase inhibitor saracatinib (AZD0530) in metastatic melanoma Investigational New Drugs, May 7, 2013

7 Isolated cerebral susceptibility artefacts in patients with malignant melanoma: metastasis or not European Radiology, May 16, 2013    Review Article

8 Is Head and Neck Melanoma Different from Trunk and Extremity Melanomas with Respect to Sentinel Lymph Node Status and Clinical Outcome? Annals of Surgical Oncology, May 13, 2013

9 Management of external ear melanoma: the same or something different? The American Journal of Surgery, May 21, 2013

10 Improvement of the sentinel lymph node detection rate of cervical sentinel lymph node biopsy using real-time fluorescence navigation with indocyanine green in head and neck skin cancer The Journal of Dermatology, May 3, 2013

11 Combined ipsilateral neck and axillary lymphadenectomy for metastatic skin cancers: A case series and surgical tips Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, May 17, 2013

12 P21-activated kinase 1 (pak1) as a therapeutic target in braf wild-type melanoma Journal of the National Cancer Institute, April 1, 2013

13 Ipilimumab in melanoma with limited brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery Melanoma Research, May 10, 2013

14 Margins of excision and prognostic factors for cutaneous eyelid melanomas Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, May 28, 2013    Review Article

15 Direct Targeting of MEK1/2 and RSK2 by Silybin Induces Cell-Cycle Arrest and Inhibits Melanoma Cell Growth Cancer Prevention Research, May 6, 2013

16 The new ajcc guidelines in practice: utility of the mitf immunohistochemical stain in the evaluation of single-cell metastasis in melanoma sentinel lymph nodes American Journal of Surgical Pathology , May 24, 2013    Clinical Guideline

17 Analysis of surrogate gene expression markers in peripheral blood of melanoma patients to predict treatment outcome of adjuvant pegylated interferon alpha 2b Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, May 2, 2013

18 The impact of comorbidity and stage on prognosis of Danish melanoma patients, 1987-2009: a registry-based cohort study British Journal of Cancer, May 20, 2013

19 Impaired PIASy-Tip60 signaling weakens activation of p53 in melanoma Melanoma Research, May 1, 2013

20 Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Diagnosis, Management, and Outcomes Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, May 7, 2013    Review Article