Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2162576 Seminars in Oncology 2009 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
The family practitioner, pediatrician, and dermatologist all have potential roles in the primary prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of localized thin melanomas. Surgical and medical oncologists are often involved when controversy arises over the nature of the skin lesion or whether sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsies and adjuvant therapy are to be contemplated. This overview of melanoma will deal with the primary and nodal pathology, surgery, and medical therapy of melanoma in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients-and will raise areas of controversy that are only recently being addressed in databases of cases from this age group.
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