Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Melanoma - From Early Detection to Treatment

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Guy Huynh Thien Duc
Guy Huynh Thien Duc

Equipe Soutenue par la Région et par l'Inserm,
France

Published30 January 2013

Doi10.5772/50853

ISBN978-953-51-0961-7

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-7076-1

Copyright year2013

Number of pages732

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

2. Targeted Therapies in Melanoma: Successes and Pitfalls

By Giuseppe Palmieri, Maria Colombino, Maria Cristina Sini, Paolo Antonio Ascierto, Amelia Lissia and Antonio Cossu

2,610
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3. Low-Penetrance Variants and Susceptibility to Sporadic Malignant Melanoma

By G. Ribas, M. Ibarrola-Villava, M.C. Peña-Chilet, L.P. Fernandez and C. Martinez-Cadenas

1,883
4. Melanoma Genetics: From Susceptibility to Progression

By Guilherme Francisco, Priscila Daniele Ramos Cirilo, Fernanda Toledo Gonçalves, Tharcísio Citrângulo Tortelli Junior and Roger Chammas

2,215
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5. Diagnosis, Histopathologic and Genetic Classification of Uveal Melanoma

By J.G.M. van Beek, A.E. Koopmans, R.M. Verdijk, N.C. Naus, A. de Klein and E. Kilic

3,103
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6. Recombinant DNA Technology in Emerging Modalities for Melanoma Immunotherapy

By Vitali Alexeev, Alyson Pidich, Daria Marley Kemp and Olga Igoucheva

2,792
7. Acquired Resistance to Targeted MAPK Inhibition in Melanoma

By Kavitha Gowrishankar, Matteo S. Carlino and Helen Rizos

3,596
10. Management of In-Transit Malignant Melanoma

By Paul J. Speicher, Douglas S. Tyler and Paul J. Mosca

3,668
11. Management of Brain Metastasis in Melanoma Patients

By Sherif S. Morgan*, Joanne M. Jeter, Evan M. Hersh, Sun K. Yi and Lee D. Cranmer*

1,929
12. Surgical Treatment of Nevi and Melanoma in the Pediatric Age

By Andrea Zangari, Federico Zangari, Mercedes Romano, Elisabetta Cerigioni, Maria Giovanna Grella, Anna Chiara Contini and Martino Ascanio

3,869
14. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Methotrexate Resistance in Melanoma

By Luis Sanchez del-Campo, Maria F. Montenegro, Magali Saez-Ayala, María Piedad Fernández-Pérez, Juan Cabezas-Herrera and Jose Neptuno Rodriguez-Lopez

2,509
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15. Surgery and the Staging of Melanoma

By Z. Al-Hilli, D. Evoy, J.G. Geraghty, E.W. McDermott and R.S. Prichard

1,996
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16. Melanoma: Treatments and Resistance

By Jonathan Castillo Arias and Miriam Galvonas Jasiulionis

1,999
17. Management of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma

By Yoshitaka Kai and Sakuhei Fujiwara

3,384
19. Cutaneous Melanoma − Surgical Treatment

By Mario Santinami, Roberto Patuzzo, Roberta Ruggeri, Gianpiero Castelli, Andrea Maurichi, Giulia Baffa and Carlotta Tinti

1,662
20. Therapeutic Agents for Advanced Melanoma

By Zhao Wang, Wei Li and Duane D. Miller

1,982
21. Update in Ocular Melanoma

By Victoria de los Ángeles Bustuoabad, Lucia Speroni and Arturo Irarrázabal

1,788
23. Study of the Anti-Photoaging Effect of Noni (Morinda citrifolia)

By Hideaki Matsuda, Megumi Masuda, Kazuya Murata, Yumi Abe and Akemi Uwaya

2,671
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24. Inhibiting S100B in Malignant Melanoma

By Kira G. Hartman, Paul T. Wilder, Kristen Varney, Alexander D. Jr. MacKerell, Andrew Coop, Danna Zimmer, Rena Lapidus and David J. Weber

2,076
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25. Immunomodulation

By Konstantinos Arnaoutakis, Dorothy A. Graves, Laura F. Hutchins and Thomas Kieber-Emmons

1,893

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