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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(17):1370-1371; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.17.1370
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 17, 1370-1371, September 6, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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Micrometastases Matter in New Melanoma Staging System

Caroline McNeil

Up to now, melanoma patients whose tumors had spread to regional lymph nodes were deemed a fairly homogeneous group. In the widely used staging system of the American Joint Committee on Cancer, node-positive patients were put into one, largely undifferentiated grouping—stage III.

However, that has changed dramatically with the publication of the final version of the AJCC’s new staging system for melanoma. Posted in June on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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