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In industrialized countries, the aging population is steadily rising. The incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is highest in old people. This study focuses on the clinicopathological profile of CMM ...
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are endocrine disrupting chemicals which could be associated with cancer development, such as kidney and testicular cancers, pancreatic and hepatocellular carcinoma a...
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Open AccessThe role of sentinel node tumor burden in modeling the prognosis of melanoma patients with positive sentinel node biopsy: an Italian melanoma intergroup study (N = 2,086)
The management of melanoma patients with metastatic melanoma in the sentinel nodes (SN) is evolving based on the results of trials questioning the impact of completion lymph node dissection (CLND) and demonstr...
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Open AccessMalignant Melanoma: Direct Costs by Clinical and Pathological Profile
A number of studies have examined the impact of tumor stage on direct health care costs of patients with melanoma. This study aimed to investigate the association between the direct costs for melanoma and the ...
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Surgical Technique and Indications for Radical Dissection: Axilla
The main purpose of lymphadenectomy in patients affected by lymph node metastases from melanoma is to provide locoregional control of disease. It is indicated for patients with histo- and/or cytologically prov...
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Surgical Technique and Indications for Radical Dissection: Head and Neck
The main purpose of lymphadenectomy in melanoma patients is to provide locoregional control of disease. It also plays an important role as a staging procedure. Lymph node involvement is diagnosed in different ...
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Management of Other Recurrent Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
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Dysfunction of the circadian clock and polymorphisms of some circadian genes have been linked to cancer development and progression. We investigated the relationship between circadian genes germline variation ...
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Dysfunction of the circadian clock and single polymorphisms of some circadian genes have been linked to cancer susceptibility, although data are scarce and findings inconsistent. We aimed to investigate the as...
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The results of surgery for mediastinal parathyroid tumors: a comparative study of 63 patients
Parathyroidectomy for ectopic mediastinal hyperfunctioning glands could be performed by transcervical approach, sternotomy, thoracotomy, and recently by thoracoscopic and mediastinoscopic approaches. This stud...
