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Melanoma Awareness Month

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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: May 5, 2002

May is Melanoma Awareness Month. Please visit the following OncoLink resources for more information on skin cancer and melanoma.

• Types of Cancer

Melanoma: The Basics

Melanoma ListServs

NCI/PDQ^® Articles

Prevention of Skin Cancer

Prevention of Skin Cancer

Search: Hereditary Melanoma - October 2002

Search: Therapy of Melanoma - October 2002

Search: Intraocular Melanoma - October 2002

Search: Intraocular Melanoma - September 2002

Search: Therapy of Melanoma - September 2002

NCI/CANCERLIT^® Articles

Melanoma intraocular (relativo al ojo)

Intraocular (Eye) Melanoma

Melanoma intraocular (relativo al ojo)

• Cancer Resources

Metastatic Melanoma

• Ask the Experts

The Role of PET in Melanoma

PET for breast cancers and melanoma

Parrot with melanoma

• OncoLink Library

Follow-up recommendations for Patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer Stages I-III Malignant Melanoma

Melanoma Prevention, Detection & Treatment

Does This Patient Have a Mole or a Melanoma?

• OncoTips

Early Detection of Melanoma

• Cancer News

Glutamate protein implicated in melanoma

Melanoma prognosis unaffected by pregnancy

Detection of circulating melanoma cells does not improve prognostic assessment

Melanoma mortality greater in UK than in Australia

Moles unlikely to transform into melanomas

Adequate follow-up contributes substantially to survival of melanoma patients

Some radiologic technologists at increased risk for melanoma

Survivin gene expression in lymph nodes prognostic in melanoma patients

Sentinel node with highest isotope count may not contain melanoma metastases

Nitric oxide may contribute to melanoma progression via MMP upregulation

• Conferences

Long Term Survival Of Stage II And III Melanoma Patients With Respect To Serial Tyrosinase RT-PCR Testing In Peripheral Blood

The Role Of Sentinel Lymphadenectomy In Thin Cutaneous Melanomas

Melanoma Patients Could be Spared Radical Surgery by Sentinel Node Mapping

Cancer Vaccine Triggers Immune System to Recognize Melanoma

Interferon Therapy Delays Disease Recurrence and Prolongs Survival in Patients with Resected Melanoma

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