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：:Patients with melanoma may experience a variety of different vision symptoms, in part associated with melanoma-associated retinopathy. For several melanoma patients with or without melanoma-associated retinopathy, colour vision deficiencies, especially involving the tritan system, have been reported. The frequency of ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Pföhler C,Tschöp S,König J,Rass K,Tilgen W

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to describe the risk factor profile of skin cancer screening participants and to determine whether there is an association between the number of skin cancer/melanoma risk factors and the likelihood of diagnosis of a malignant melanoma. Seventy skin cancer screening clinics were held by ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Williams HA,Fritschi L,Beauchamp C,Katris P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosome-associated membrane protein-1 is a protein with a significant content of beta1,6-branched N-glycans. It is thought that enhanced expression of lysosome-associated membrane protein-1 in tumour cells may promote invasion by influencing both adhesion to extracellular matrix and perhaps also binding to endothelia...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kuźbicki L,Gajo B,Chwirot BW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to various antineoplastic agents is common in the clinical management of malignant melanoma. The biological mechanisms conferring these different drug-resistant phenotypes are still unclear. To identify potential factors mediating drug resistance to melanoma cells, the mRNA expression profiles of the parent...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Györffy B,Serra V,Materna V,Schäfer R,Dietel M,Schadendorf D,Lage H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the cost of air travel has decreased substantially in the USA and Europe over the past few decades, leisure travel to vacation destinations during the winter months has expanded significantly. This trend has probably increased the incidence of significant ultraviolet radiation exposure and sunburn in a broader popu...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Agredano YZ,Chan JL,Kimball RC,Kimball AB

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypotheses have explicitly implicated the role of an altered redox status of melanin in the aetiology of melanoma and macular degeneration. The balance between the intrinsic anti-oxidant and pro-oxidant properties of melanin is lost, resulting in an altered redox phenotype. We propose that such an alteration o...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Sarangarajan R,Apte SP

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate margins of excision for melanoma have been well defined on the basis of prospective clinical trials. Various factors may result in a discrepancy between the intended clinical margin and the pathologic margin ex vivo, however, making it difficult to determine whether adequate excision margins have been obta...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Clausen SP,Brady MS

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of melanoma has increased continuously during the last decade. Surgery is the mainstay of therapy but, for patients with thick lesions or regional metastatic lymph nodes, there is a high risk of relapse. For this group of patients, there is no standard therapy or general agreement amongst oncologists. In...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Queirolo P,Acquati M,Kirkwood JM,Eggermont AM,Rocca A,Testori A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downstream of Ras, the serine/threonine kinase B-raf has been reported to be mutated, amongst other carcinomas, in a substantial subset of primary melanomas, with a preponderance of mutations within the kinase domain, including the activating V599E and V599K transitions. We investigated a representative series of 54 r...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kirschner M,Helmke B,Starz H,Benner A,Thome M,Deichmann M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomics provides a powerful approach for screening alterations in protein expression and post-translational modification associated with particular human diseases. In this study, the analysis of protein expression was focused on malignant melanoma in order to determine the candidate genes involved in tumour progres...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Carta F,Demuro PP,Zanini C,Santona A,Castiglia D,D'Atri S,Ascierto PA,Napolitano M,Cossu A,Tadolini B,Turrini F,Manca A,Sini MC,Palmieri G,Rozzo AC,Italian Melanoma Intergroup.

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration that zinc-finger transcriptional repressors can control E-cadherin expression in epithelial cells has provided a new avenue of research in the field of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). One of these zinc-finger molecules is the transcription factor Snail, which controls gastrulation and neural...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kuphal S,Palm HG,Poser I,Bosserhoff AK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we constructed a pEgr-tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) plasmid and investigated its expression properties in B16 cells on exposure to ionizing irradiation and, furthermore, the effect of gene radiotherapy on a melanoma model. Firstly, the recombinant pEgr-TNFalpha plasmid was constructed a...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Wu C,Li X,Tian M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholesterol-lowering medications, statins, inhibit cellular proliferation and induce apoptosis in an array of cancer cell lines, including melanoma. We investigated the apoptotic mechanism of lovastatin on human melanoma cell lines in vitro. The cytotoxicity of statins on multiple cell lines was examined by Cell T...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Shellman YG,Ribble D,Miller L,Gendall J,Vanbuskirk K,Kelly D,Norris DA,Dellavalle RP

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Radioiodinated N-(2-(diethylamino)ethyl)benzamides have recently been discovered as selective agents for melanotic melanoma and are used for scintigraphic imaging in nuclear medicine. Owing to the high binding capacity, benzamide derivatives conjugated with alkylating cytostatics were synthesized and tested for their ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Wolf M,Bauder-Wüst U,Mohammed A,Schönsiegel F,Mier W,Haberkorn U,Eisenhut M

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:Cerebral metastases from melanoma are correlated with a poor prognosis. Temozolomide is an oral alkylating agent that can cross the blood-brain barrier and in phase II and III trials, patients with advanced metastatic melanoma achieved overall response rates of 13 to 21%. The present study evaluated the efficacy and t...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Bafaloukos D,Tsoutsos D,Fountzilas G,Linardou H,Christodoulou C,Kalofonos HP,Briassoulis E,Panagiotou P,Hatzichristou H,Gogas H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is among the most chemotherapy-resistant malignancies. Numerous new agents have been developed that target specific molecules on cancer cells, including the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab, which targets Her2/neu and has been very beneficial in the treatment of breast cancer. There are conflicting reports in ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kluger HM,DiVito K,Berger AJ,Halaban R,Ariyan S,Camp RL,Rimm DL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanogenesis appears to be a unique target to develop anti-tumour agents specific for malignant melanoma. Among the anti-melanoma compounds that we have examined, 4-S-cysteaminylphenol (4-S-CAP), a phenolic amine, was found to have the most promising anti-melanoma effects. To further improve the efficacy as anti-mela...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Yukitake J,Otake H,Inoue S,Wakamatsu K,Ito S

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:The nm23 gene is a putative tumour and metastasis suppressor gene. A number of studies have found that reduction of its expression is associated with increased metastatic potential in several human malignancies. Similarly, clinical studies have shown correlation between reduced nm23 protein expression and a poor progn...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Sarris M,Scolyer RA,Konopka M,Thompson JF,Harper CG,Lee CS

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Putative tumour suppressor genes CDKN2A and CDKN2B (on chromosome 9p21) and CDKN2A-interacting cell growth regulatory genes CDK4 and Id-1 have been demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of malignant melanoma (MM). Mutation analysis of these candidate genes was performed in MM families from southern Italy wit...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Casula M,Ascierto PA,Cossu A,Sini MC,Tore S,Colombino M,Satta MP,Manca A,Rozzo C,Satriano SM,Castello G,Lissia A,Tanda F,Palmieri G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genomic hybridization was used to map copy number abnormalities in 48 short-term cell cultures established from different stages and types of human melanoma. A variety of random and non-random chromosomal alterations were detected, with gains within chromosomes 20q, 7q, 7p, 20p, 6p and 17q and losses in 9p...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Pirker C,Holzmann K,Spiegl-Kreinecker S,Elbling L,Thallinger C,Pehamberger H,Micksche M,Berger W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the antitumour effect and mechanism of action of cationic liposome-mediated murine interferon-beta (IFNbeta) gene therapy in mouse B16F1 melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo. Murine IFNbeta gene transfer by cationic liposome resulted in substantial growth inhibition of B16F1 melanoma cells...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ryuke Y,Mizuno M,Natsume A,Suzuki O,Nobayashi M,Kageshita T,Matsumoto K,Saida T,Yoshida J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little population-based data has been published about skin cancers in children and young adults. In this study, 200 cases of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers diagnosed under 25 years of age in the North of England from 1968-1995 were obtained from the Northern Region Young Persons' Malignant Disease Registry. Th...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Pearce MS,Parker L,Cotterill SJ,Gordon PM,Craft AW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate staging of patients with primary cutaneous melanoma includes assessment of regional lymph nodes for the presence of micrometastatic disease. Sentinel lymph node biopsy is highly accurate but is an invasive surgical procedure with a 5-10% complication rate, and requires labour-intensive and expensive histologi...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Lean CL,Bourne R,Thompson JF,Scolyer RA,Stretch J,Li LX,Russell P,Mountford C

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:During the process of melanogenesis free radicals are generated. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of melanogenesis in B16 melanoma on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant capacity in selected tissues of black C57BL/6J mice. The study was conducted on 24 mice: 12 healthy controls and 12 with a transpl...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Woźniak A,Woźniak B,Drewa G,Drewa T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma with either dacarbazine (DTIC) or interferon-alpha (IFNalpha) as single drugs, or in combination, results in a response rate of approximately 15-20%. This study evaluated the activity and toxicity following treatment with a combination of DTIC, IFNalpha2b and verapamil (V...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Andersson R,Ake Hofer P,Riklund-Ahlström K,Henriksson R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermoscopy is a non-invasive technique that can be utilized for the clinical diagnosis of pigmented lesions. The aim of this study was to assess the utilization and beliefs about the usefulness of dermoscopy in the evaluation of pigmented lesions by physicians in dermatology residency programmes, and to determine the ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Nehal KS,Oliveria SA,Marghoob AA,Christos PJ,Dusza SW,Tromberg JS,Halpern AC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staging of melanoma patients by means of whole body functional imaging in a single evaluation session using positron emission tomography (PET) with fluorine-18- labelled deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) as a metabolic tracer has created much interest over the last decade. After enthusiastic pilot studies, more attention has been...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Stas M,Stroobants S,Dupont P,Gysen M,Hoe LV,Garmyn M,Mortelmans L,Wever ID

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the principal applications of tumour markers is the early detection of recurrent disease in the follow-up of patients. In the study described here, we compared the usefulness of two serum markers for melanoma, 5-S-cysteinyldopa (5-S-CD) and melanoma inhibitory activity (MIA), in the monitoring of postsurgical m...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Matsushita Y,Hatta N,Wakamatsu K,Takehara K,Ito S,Takata M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorectal malignant melanoma is an uncommon tumour. Unlike for cutaneous melanoma, there are few guidelines for its optimal management. In particular, very few palliative treatment strategies have been described for patients with advanced disease. We report on an 80 year old patient with locally advanced anorectal mel...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ulmer A,Metzger S,Fierlbeck G

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:In this study we evaluated the overexpression status of HER-2 and its prognostic significance on survival in patients with thick cutaneous malignant melanoma. The immuno-alkaline phosphatase antigen detection technique was applied to archival diagnostic material from 51 patients with primary lesions measuring >or= 10 ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Eliopoulos P,Mohammed MQ,Henry K,Retsas S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tissue counter analysis, a novel image analysis tool in the evaluation of dermatoscopic images, a lattice of elementary measuring masks (elements) of equal size is randomly placed over the image and the contents of each element is evaluated by a set of colour and texture features. In this study, we tested the effic...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kahofer P,Hofmann-Wellenhof R,Smolle J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among patients with advanced melanoma, the development of autoimmune phenomena or of hypothyroidism during therapy has been associated with a favourable outcome. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of autoimmunity and of hypothyroidism in the melanoma population as a whole and to determine if t...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ellerhorst JA,Cooksley CD,Grimm EA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00