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Cutaneous melanoma remains a management challenge. The National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database documents increases of 619 percent in annual diagnoses of cutaneous melanoma and of 165 percent in annual mortality from 1950 to 2000.¹ In 2004, an estimated 55,000 Americans will receive a diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma, and 7900 will die from the disease.² Of all cancers in the United States, cutaneous melanoma ranks fifth in incidence among men and seventh among women² and is the second leading cause of lost productive years^3,4; it is also the most common cancer among women 20 to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Melanoma Screening and Identification of High-Risk Persons

Identification of High-Risk Lesions

Staging and Treatment of Primary Melanoma

Nodal Sampling and Staging

Adjuvant Therapy

Treatment of Distant Disease

Future Directions

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From the Department of Dermatology (H.T., A.J.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital Melanoma Center (H.T., A.J.S.), and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (H.T.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; and the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (M.B.A.) — all in Boston.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Tsao at the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bartlett 622, 48 Blossom St., Boston, MA 02114.

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