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Surgical Management of Melanoma: Advances and Updates
Ist Teil von
Current oncology reports, 2022-11, Vol.24 (11), p.1425-1432
Ort / Verlag
New York: Springer US
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Purpose of Review
To review and update surgeons about the evolving complexities in the surgical management of melanoma including lymph node staging and treatment.
Recent Findings
Primary resection with adequate margins continues to be the standard of care for localized cutaneous melanoma. Sentinel lymph node biopsy is confirmed to be a powerful tool due to its prognostic value and informative guidance for adjuvant treatments and surveillance. Due to the lack of benefit in melanoma-specific survival and distant metastasis-free survival, completion lymph node dissection is not performed routinely after a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy. Neoadjuvant systemic treatment approaches for advanced loco-regional disease show promise in phase I and II clinical trial data, and phase III studies.
Summary
The surgical management of cutaneous melanoma continues to evolve with further de-escalation of the extent of excision of primary melanomas and the management of lymph node disease.