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Oral mucosal melanoma : epidemiology and pathobiology
Hicks Mj,Catherine M. Flaitz +1 more
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In the not too distant future, innovative retroviral transfection, antibodies against specific melanoma-associated factors, vaccination against melanoma, and gene therapy to repair cytogenetic abnormalities and tumor suppressor gene mutations may provide effective therapy and protection against melanomas.About:
This article is published in Oral Oncology.The article was published on 2000-03-01. It has received 321 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mucosal melanoma & Cutaneous melanoma.read more
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Incidence of noncutaneous melanomas in the U.S.
Colleen McLaughlin,Xiao-Cheng Wu,Ahmedin Jemal,Howard J. Martin,Lisa M. Roche,Vivien W. Chen +5 more
TL;DR: This report was the largest in‐depth descriptive analysis of incidence of noncutaneous melanoma in the United States, using data from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.
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Primary mucosal melanomas: a comprehensive review.
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of various locations of primary melanoma along mucosal membranes, their epidemiological and clinical features, and treatment options is presented.
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Melanoma epidemiology, biology and prognosis.
TL;DR: This chapter considers each of these melanoma subtypes in turn, highlighting the differences in epidemiology, biology and prognosis between them.
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Pigmented Lesions of the Oral Cavity: Review, Differential Diagnosis, and Case Presentations
TL;DR: An algorithm is proposed for the assessment of pigmented lesions of the oral cavity, and 3 patients with such lesions are described.
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C-kit protein expression correlated with activating mutations in KIT gene in oral mucosal melanoma
Rosario Santos Rivera,Hitoshi Nagatsuka,Mehmet Gunduz,Beyhan Cengiz,Esra Gunduz,Chong Huat Siar,Hidetsugu Tsujigiwa,Ryo Tamamura,Kok Ng Han,Noriyuki Nagai +9 more
TL;DR: C-kit expression in atypical melanocytes suggests the role of c-kit in the early stage of OMM tumorigenesis, and protein expression correlated with activating mutations indicating the pertinent role of the proto-oncogene KIT in the tumors of O MM.
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The National Cancer Data Base Report on Cutaneous and Noncutaneous Melanoma A Summary of 84,836 Cases from the Past Decade
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