Melanomas
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North-South gradients of melanomas and non-melanomas
Incidence rates of skin cancer increase with decreasing latitude in Norway, as in many other countries with white populations. The latitudinal trends of the incidence rates of skin cancer were studied and compared with data for vitamin D-induced by UV and for vitamin D intake. The north-south gradient for CMM incidence rates on sun exposed skin is much smaller than those for BCC and SCC, and th...
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Thirty nine patients suffering from juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma were treated with Ru-106/Rh-106 beta-ray plaques. The tumoricidal dose was 100 Gy at the apex of the tumour within 7-14 days. Additional photocoagulation was performed in 12 eyes. The irradiated eyes of three patients had to be enucleated, seven patients died, five of them (12.8%) from metastases. Thirty two (82%) patients ar...
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The increased incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma, together with only minor changes in mortality, has brought into question the existence of a melanoma epidemic. The discrepancy between incidence and mortality suggests that most newly diagnosed melanomas have indolent behaviour. This review summarizes the most recent epidemiological findings regarding the incidence of cutaneous malignant ...
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In human beings a striking loss of pigment may occur in the skin and hair surrounding normal nevi, the primary sites of melanomas, cutaneous nodules of metastatic melanoma, and over the surface in the form of vitiligo in those with melanomas. It is generally assumed that vitiliginous changes are associated with .he local destruction of normal melanocytes on either an autoimmune or cytotoxic bas...
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Surgery remains the mainstay of melanoma therapy, regardless of the tumor site. Only the early diagnosis combined with proper surgical therapy currently gives patients affected by this malignancy the chance for a full cure. The main goal of surgical therapy is to provide the local control of the disease and to secure long-term survival of the patient without reasonable functional and esthetic i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Cancer
سال: 1936
ISSN: 0099-7374
DOI: 10.1158/ajc.1936.120