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Article: Melanoma's location not predictive of outcome.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Skin & Allergy News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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CHICAGO -- Even though head and neck melanoma patients are older and have more sentinel nodes harvested, they do not appear to have poorer outcomes than do patients with other melanomas, Dr. Doreen Agnese said at the annual meeting of the American Head and Neck Society.
She and her colleagues drew this conclusion from a prospective database analysis of 755 patients who underwent wide excision and sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma at a tertiary referral center from August 1994 to December 2004.
The series included 131 (17%) melanomas in the head and neck region (49 face, 37 neck, 29 ear, and 16 scalp) and 624 (83%) melanomas in other sites (281 ...