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Imaging Work-up of the Patient with Melanoma

Key Points Imaging is heavily utilized in the diagnosis and management of melanoma patients but the utility of imaging depends upon the goal in the context of the clinical disease setting. For staging purposes, little evidence supports comprehensive body imaging…

Adjuvant Therapy for Cutaneous Melanoma

Key Points Chemotherapy regimens, non-specific immunostimulants and vaccines alone have failed to show any survival benefit in the adjuvant setting. High-dose interferon-α2b is the only approved drug shown to improve relapse-free and overall survival in large multi-institutional randomized controlled trials…