Risk for 20-year melanoma-related death increases significantly for patients with primary tumors of 0.8 to 1.0 mm in ...

The researchers enrolled 338 patients with positive sentinel nodes with a minimum melanoma tumor Breslow thickness of 1.0 mm from three main centers (The Netherlands, Poland and Germany ...

Women were a younger mean age at melanoma diagnosis when compared with men across all anatomic sites and most Breslow thickness categories.

94.2% of those with tumors under 0.8 mm survived, down to 87.8% for those measuring 0.8–1.0 mm. Findings affirm the utility of the 0.8-mm Breslow thickness threshold in distinguishing high- and ...

8th Edition Cancer Staging Manual, thin melanomas, characterized as less than 1 mm in Breslow thickness, are the largest group of all melanomas classified by tumor thickness as T1a or T1b.

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

Full articles deemed relevant were analyzed and then included in this review. Breslow Tumor Thickness: Method for determining melanoma prognosis; melanoma tumor thickness is related to the 5-year ...

In this system, each cancer is given a T category ... In the newest classification, the Breslow measurement of thickness has become more important than the Clark level of penetration as the ...