Clinical staging ... thickness >4 mm is a powerful predictor of overall survival and may help guide the need for further adjuvant therapy (Gershenwald, Mansfield, Lee, & Ross, 2000). The Sunbelt ...

A noninvasive clinicopathologic and gene expression profiling (CP-GEP)–based tool, the Merlin assay, shows promise for ...

The pathologist can also measure the melanoma’s thickness, which helps determine the cancer’s “stage.” The thicker the melanoma, the more it has grown into the skin. If the melanoma is ...

Because of the stage and thickness of Annelise's melanoma, there was a real risk it had spread to her lymph nodes. 'The hardest part was the uncertainty - waiting for results, wondering if the ...

The DecisionDx-Melanoma test accurately identifies low sentinel lymph node risk in melanoma, according to the DECIDE study.

While SLNB remains the standard for melanoma staging, many patients classified ... expression data with clinical factors age and tumor thickness, effectively identified two distinct risk groups ...