New TNM staging for skin melanoma

Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 06:21 in Biology & Nature

The latest version of the AJCC TNM staging system for cutaneous melanoma has been released (based on 30,946 cases). The main changes are the following: 1) mitotic rate (added); 2) Clark level (removed). The main limit is that, once again, no molecular biomarker has been implemented.

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