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SUBMITTER: Ascierto PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693227 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ascierto Paolo Antonio PA Borgognoni Lorenzo L Botti Gerardo G Guida Michele M Marchetti Paolo P Mocellin Simone S Muto Paolo P Palmieri Giuseppe G Patuzzo Roberto R Quaglino Pietro P Stanganelli Ignazio I Caracò Corrado C
Journal of translational medicine 20190814 1
<h4>Background</h4>Recently the 8th version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) classification has been introduced, and has attempted to define a more accurate and precise definition of prognosis in line with the major progresses in understanding the biology and pathogenesis of melanoma. This new staging system introduces major changes in the stage III staging system. Indeed, surgical practice is changing in stage III patients, since, according to recent evidence, there is no surviv ...[more]