The American Cancer Society’s annual report approximates the new cancer diagnoses and deaths expected in 2021 and identifies impactful patterns in oncology care.
The clinical and dermoscopic features of nevus-associated melanomas and de novo melanomas, classified by melanoma thickness, in a large group of patients, were compared.
Among patients younger than 49 years, those with actinic keratosis had a nearly 7-times greater likelihood of developing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma than patients without actinic keratosis.
For each case, the lesion area was projected onto a pixeled facial model and lesion centroids were recorded; a pixel was counted as lesion-positive when more than half of its area was occupied.
A team of investigators sought to assess the impact of multimodality, CNS-directed treatments on survival rates in patients with melanoma brain metastasis.
