Current management of melanoma / Ferdinando Cafiero, Franco De Cian, editors ; foreword by Paolo De Paolis.

Format:

Book

Series:

Updates in surgery

Updates in surgery, 2280-9848

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melanoma.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the last decade, the clinical management of melanoma has become more effective: basic clinical studies, randomized clinical trials, and new drugs have greatly improved the prognosis of patients, both in the initial and in the advanced stage of the disease. This book offers a wide and up-to-date overview of the multidisciplinary treatment of melanoma. Among the topics discussed, there are the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy and the radical dissection, following the results of international randomized clinical trials, in particular MSLT-II. The last chapters are focused on new medical treatments in adjuvant, neoadjuvant, and metastatic settings. The volume has been written for all the professionals involved in melanoma treatment, such as general surgeons, surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, dermatologists, radiotherapists, and nuclear medicine physicians.

Contents:

The history of melanoma: from Incas to the 3rd millennium

2 Epidemiology, prevention and clinical diagnosis

3 Treatment of primitive tumour

4 Histopathological examination: the keystone of treatment

5 Molecular assessment: when and why

6 New tumour staging: prognostic factors

7 Lymphatic mapping and Positron Emission Tomography (PET): the role of nuclear medicine

8 Evolution of sentinel lymph node biopsy technique

9 The rationale of sentinel lymph node biopsy: prognostic and therapeutic implications

10 Surgical technique and indications of radical dissections: axylla

11 Surgical technique and indications of radical dissections: groin

12 Surgical technique and indications of radical dissections: head and neck

13 Management of complications of radical dissections

14 Local treatments of loco-regional pathology

15 Surgical indications of metastatic disease in election

16 Surgical treatment of urgency

17 Medical treatment of melanoma: neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies

18 Systemic treatment in advanced melanoma

19 Management of brain metastases.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9783030453473

3030453472

OCLC:

1200650839

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Restricted for use by site license.