Serum zinc levels are increased in melanoma patients.

abstract：:Treatment strategies for metastatic melanoma have changed markedly in recent times due to the advent of targeted systemic therapies. In addition to these developments, surgery remains a useful adjunct that can confer survival benefits in selected patients. In this review, we examine the current literature to highlight...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： O'Leary DP,Byrnes KG,Power DG,Redmond HP

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no general consensus regarding the optimal follow-up strategy for patients with melanoma. We sought to determine the utility and cost effectiveness of radiological restaging of patients with stage IIB-IIIC melanoma at the 3-year follow-up time point. A retrospective review of 210 patients diagnosed with stage...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： DeRose ER,Pleet A,Wang W,Seery VJ,Lee MY,Renzi S,Sullivan RJ,Atkins MB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is the most frequent type of cutaneous melanoma in the Asian and African populations, but the fourth distinct variant of cutaneous melanoma in the Caucasian population. Histological criteria and prognosis of ALM remain controversial. A retrospective study, showing epidemiological, clin...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Avilés-Izquierdo JA,Longo-Imedio MI,Lázaro-Ochaita P

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-24 (IL-24)/melanoma differentiation-associated gene-7 (mda-7) is a unique cytokine-tumor suppressor that displays ubiquitous antitumor properties and tumor-specific killing activity. Oncostatin M (OSM) is the most active IL-6-type cytokine and inhibits the proliferation of various solid tumor cell lines. M...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Xu Y,Zhang F,Qin L,Miao J,Sheng W,Xie Y,Xu X,Yang J,Qian H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of cancer in pregnant women is not a common phenomenon and the real incidence of malignant melanoma during this period is unknown. Many authors reported a poor prognosis in pregnant women with melanoma compared with non-pregnant women's tumour. Several retrospective reviews reported a worsened prognosis...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Silipo V,De Simone P,Mariani G,Buccini P,Ferrari A,Catricala C

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed that an early increase in the CD4+/CD8+ ratio of metastatic melanoma patients during chemoimmunotherapy is the most favourable independent prognostic factor. In this study, 87 patients with metastatic melanoma were monitored for peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets (CD4+ and CD8+) before and during che...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Hernberg MM,Hahka-Kemppinen MH,Pyrhönen SO

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violacein is the main pigment produced by Chromobacterium violaceum, a saprophytic gram-negative bacillus. Violacein is formed by the condensation of two modified tryptophan molecules and has potential anti-neoplastic effects. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the in vitro activity of violacein in hum...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Saraiva VS,Marshall JC,Cools-Lartigue J,Burnier MN Jr

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanomas are promising targets for immunotherapy, as they express a number of tissue-specific antigens against which immune responses can be elicited. We have previously described transgenic mice in which malignant cutaneous melanomas are produced. The 1042 melanoma cell line, derived from a primary melanoma in one o...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Milling SW,Sai T,Silvers WK,Mintz B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical and morphological features of primary malignant melanomas of the urinary bladder. We obtained information on five such cases from three different institutions. These were three men and two women between 52 and 76 years of age. Three tumors presented with hematuria, one...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Karabulut YY,Erdogan S,Sayar H,Ergen A,Ertoy Baydar D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of selective incorporation of thiourea into melanotic melanoma was investigated by model experiments in which the effect of the compound was examined at various stages of melanogenesis in vitro. Up to 50% inhibition of dopachrome formation was observed in the tyrosinase-dopa reaction in the presence of t...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Palumbo A,Mårs U,De Martino L,d'Ischia M,Napolitano A,Larsson BS,Prota G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Ipilimumab, a novel immunotherapy, is the first treatment shown to improve survival in patients with metastatic melanoma in large randomized controlled studies. The most concerning side effects reported in clinical studies of ipilimumab fall into the category of immune-re...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Bernardo SG,Moskalenko M,Pan M,Shah S,Sidhu HK,Sicular S,Harcharik S,Chang R,Friedlander P,Saenger YM

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preoperative assessment of melanoma invasion by sonometry has been reported to exhibit a high correlation with postoperative histometry based on the determination of a regression coefficient. We believe that this approach is not adequate and that it can be misleading. We therefore applied an appropriate statistical ap...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Partsch B,Binder M,Püspök-Schwarz M,Wolff K,Pehamberger H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoplastic melanoma (DM) due to its rare and locally aggressive nature, can be difficult to study and to treat effectively. Whether the optimal treatment approach for these tumors should include adjuvant radiation has been unclear in the literature. In this retrospective study of the National Cancer Database, 2390 p...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Abbott JL,Qureshi MM,Truong MT,Sahni D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group consensus guidelines from 2016 recommend interruption of targeted therapy with BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors during radiotherapy with data being based mostly on BRAF monotherapy. The aim of this study is to provide data on the safety of concurrent radiotherapy and combination targeted...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ziegler JS,Kroeze S,Hilbers ML,Imhof L,Guckenberger M,Levesque MP,Dummer R,Cheng P,Mangana J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial atypical multiple mole-melanoma (FAMMM) syndrome is characterized by the familial occurrence of malignant melanoma of the skin in combination with multiple atypical precursor naevi. In the present study we performed linkage analysis in seven Dutch FAMMM families to define the relationship between the ultimate...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Gruis NA,Sandkuijl LA,Weber JL,van der Zee A,Borgstein AM,Bergman W,Frants RR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous in vivo studies indicated that a phenolic thioether amine (PTEA), 4-S-cysteaminylphenol (CAP), selectively disintegrates melanocytes of black hair and skin, and inhibits the growth of murine and human malignant melanomas. To elucidate the mechanism of the in vivo melanocytotoxicity and anti-melanoma effec...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Yamada K,Jimbow K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of metastatic melanoma is a difficult matter. Nevertheless, the advent of target therapy has significantly improved patient outcome, provided that tumor molecular characteristics become available: the detection of drug-resistant clones can contribute to understanding the reasons for resistance onset, in...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Scaini MC,Pigozzo J,Pizzi M,Manicone M,Chiarion-Sileni V,Zambenedetti P,Rugge M,Zanovello P,Rossi E,Zamarchi R,Facchinetti A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 and mucin isotype MUC18 were originally identified as melanoma progression antigens by monoclonal antibodies (MAb) generated in a search for molecules expressed by melanomas but not detectable on benign naevi. As MAb detect single epitopes whose accessibility may be modulated, ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kraus A,Masat L,Johnson JP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD10 antigen is a neutral endopeptidase expressed by a variety of mesenchymal tumours (haemopoietic or not), including a subset of malignant melanomas. We investigated the expression of CD10 in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens of 72 cutaneous melanomas (28 primary, 26 metastatic to the skin and 1...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kanitakis J,Narvaez D,Claudy A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanomas contain subsets of cancer stem-like cells with tumor-initiating capacity. The frequency of these cells in the tumor is still a topic of debate. We investigated the phenotypic plasticity of cancer cells grown as melanospheres to elucidate the influence of the microenvironment on some features of melanoma stem...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Sztiller-Sikorska M,Koprowska K,Jakubowska J,Zalesna I,Stasiak M,Duechler M,Czyz ME

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation therapy (EPT) is a novel treatment modality that uses brief, high-intensity, pulsed electrical currents to enhance the uptake of chemotherapeutic agents, vaccines and genes into cells. This technique is potentially useful for patients with secondary and, possibly, some primary tumours. Nineteen patient...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Byrne CM,Thompson JF,Johnston H,Hersey P,Quinn MJ,Michael Hughes T,McCarthy WH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective sentinel lymph node (SLN) dissection is widely used in the management of cutaneous melanoma patients without clinical evidence of nodal metastases. A series of 274 consecutive melanoma patients who underwent melanoma primary excision and SLN mapping at our institutions since 1998, and were thereafter followe...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Macripò G,Quaglino P,Caliendo V,Ronco AM,Soltani S,Giacone E,Pau S,Fierro MT,Bernengo MG

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cell invasion through basement membranes and into stromal tissue are key steps for promoting growth and metastasis. Tumor cells express various extracellular-matrix-degrading enzymes such as matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) to degrade extracellular matrix components to facilitate tumor migration and invasion. Hi...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Iida J,McCarthy JB

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated limb perfusion (ILP) with melphalan is used to treat recurrent melanoma. This study aimed to develop a microdialysis technique for melphalan tissue concentration measurement during ILP. The effects of melphalan concentration (50-600 microg/ml), microdIalysis flow rate (0.55-17.5 microl/min), probe length (5-5...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Wu ZY,Smithers BM,Anderson C,Roberts MS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite instability (MSI) is caused by replication errors due to deficient DNA mismatch repair and has been associated with tumour progression in various types of cancer. Controversial results have been reported concerning the frequency and significance of MSI in malignant melanoma. In this study, the time of o...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Palmieri G,Ascierto PA,Cossu A,Colombino M,Casula M,Botti G,Lissia A,Tanda F,Castello G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the apoptotic effects, toxicity, and radiosensitization of total low dose irradiation delivered at a high dose rate in vitro to melanoma cells, normal human epidermal melanocytes (HEM), or normal human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) and to study the effect of mitochondrial inhibition i...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Sarojini S,Pecora A,Milinovikj N,Barbiere J,Gupta S,Hussain ZM,Tuna M,Jiang J,Adrianzen L,Jun J,Catello L,Sanchez D,Agarwal N,Jeong S,Jin Y,Remache Y,Goy A,Ndlovu A,Ingenito A,Suh KS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, no study of melanoma patients who have undergone delayed lymph node dissection (DLND) has focused on the independent prognostic factors of overall survival, as calculated from surgery on the primary. Using Kaplan-Meier estimates and Cox's proportional hazard model, the significance of prognostic factors was e...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kretschmer L,Preusser KP,Marsch WC,Neumann C

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is one of the most common cancers worldwide and its incidence has been increasing over the past few decades. Gallic acid (GA) can inhibit the growth of human cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. However, there is no available information to address the effects of GA on migration and invasion of human skin cance...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Lo C,Lai TY,Yang JS,Yang JH,Ma YS,Weng SW,Lin HY,Chen HY,Lin JG,Chung JG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous large randomized, open-label study, retrospective subset analysis revealed that the addition of the Bcl-2 antisense oligonucleotide oblimersen to dacarbazine (Dac) significantly improved overall survival, progression-free survival, and the response rate in chemotherapy-naive patients with advanced melano...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Bedikian AY,Garbe C,Conry R,Lebbe C,Grob JJ,Genasense Melanoma Study Group.

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma is a cancer whose incidence is rising rapidly. Extensive studies of primary tumors and tumor-derived cell lines revealed that inappropriate activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) proteins, particularly of STAT3 and 5, occurs with high frequency in various human cancers...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Hassel JC,Winnemöller D,Schartl M,Wellbrock C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00