The Comprehensive Melanoma Handbook: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

Edited by Stephan P. Ariyan MD MBA and Harriet Kluger MD

The Melanoma Handbook is a succinct and all-encompassing resource for healthcare professionals treating patients with local, advanced, or metastatic melanoma. This book provides detailed chapters, numerous figures, and essential clinical knowledge on staging and workup considerations for the pathology, treatment, and management of all presentations of melanoma.

Key Features

• Screening Recommendations: Provides guidelines for early detection of initial and recurrent melanoma.
• AJCC Staging Criteria: Summarizes the 8th Edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging criteria.
• Surgical Management: Covers the surgical management of lentigo melanoma, invasive melanoma, mucosal melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, sentinel lymph node biopsies, lymph node metastases, and distant organ metastases.
• Recent Innovations: Discusses recent innovations in treatment options, including newly approved targeted therapies, immunotherapies, chemotherapies, and combination therapy options.

Target Audience

The Melanoma Handbook is an essential resource for trainees managing this fast-moving disease for the first time, as well as oncologists, dermatologists, and surgeons seeking a searchable, quick-review reference when faced with a challenging melanoma case in their practice.

Publication Details

Pages: 282

Publisher: Demos Medical

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: April 17, 2017

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1620701189

ISBN-13: 978-1620701188

Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches