The Melanoma Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals

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

Published by Demos Medical, 1st Edition, April 17, 2017

ISBN-10: 1620701189, ISBN-13: 978-1620701188

Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches, 282 pages

Language: English

Product Description:

The Melanoma Handbook is a concise and comprehensive resource for healthcare professionals who treat patients with local, advanced, or metastatic melanoma in all its various forms. Detailed chapters with numerous figures cover the pathology, treatment, and management of all presentations of melanoma, including essential clinical knowledge on staging and workup considerations. The content emphasizes both overall treatment guidelines and more nuanced applications for patient groups who have different presentations, metastases, or other complications to treatment. Tables throughout the handbook consolidate helpful classification and staging information, survival data, FDA-approved treatment regimens, and toxicity risk.

Key Features:

– Provides screening recommendations for early detection of initial and recurrent melanoma

– Summarizes AJCC staging criteria from the 8th Edition

– 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

– Discusses infusion, perfusion, and injection techniques in complicated sites when lesions are not resectable

– Highlights recent innovations, including newly approved targeted therapies, immunotherapies, chemotherapies and combination therapy options

Why This Book Matters:

The Melanoma Handbook is essential not only for trainees managing this fast-moving disease for the first time but also oncologists, dermatologists, and surgeons who want a searchable, quick-review reference when faced with a challenging melanoma case in their practice. This comprehensive guide provides a targeted overview of conventional and novel treatment strategies for all stages of malignancy and applications of practical management options, making it a valuable resource for healthcare professionals in the field of oncology and dermatology.