Purpose: To revise the staging system for cutaneous melanoma under the auspices of the
American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC). Materials and Methods: The prognostic factors …

PURPOSE: The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) recently proposed major
revisions of the tumor-node-metastases (TNM) categories and stage groupings for cutaneous …

Background We evaluated the contribution of sentinel-node biopsy to outcomes in patients
with newly diagnosed melanoma. Methods Patients with a primary cutaneous melanoma …

Objective. —To identify the sentinel lymph node(s) (SLN[s]) (the first node[s] draining the
primary tumor in the regional lymphatic basin) in patients with invasive breast cancer and to test …

Background Stimulating an immune response against cancer with the use of vaccines remains
a challenge. We hypothesized that combining a melanoma vaccine with interleukin-2, an …

Purpose: To compare the effect of pathologic sentinel lymph node (SLN) status with that of
other known prognostic factors on recurrence and survival in patients with stage I or II …

Purpose The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group trial Z0011 was a prospective,
randomized, multicenter trial comparing overall survival between patients with positive …

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate, in an international multicenter phase
III trial, the accuracy, use, and morbidity of intraoperative lymphatic mapping and sentinel …

… MD, PhD ∥ ; Mozzillo, Nicola MD ¶ ; Reintgen, Douglas MD # ; Wang, He-jing; Edwin,
MPH; Glass, C. MD * ; Cochran, Alistair J. MD * the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy …

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the order of melanoma nodal metastases.
Summary Background Data: Most solid tumors are thought to demonstrate a random nodal …