The AJCC staging is based on three main characteristics defining the natural history of melanoma; namely the extent of the primary tumor (T), the absence or presence of regional lymph node metastasis ...
Data from 1,868 Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-linked patients show DecisionDx-Melanoma significantly stratifies five-year melanoma-specific survival within American Joint Committee ...
Multi-center clinical and population-based data show that DecisionDx-Melanoma identifies biologically high-risk patients—including those with thin and early-stage disease—and provides recurrence risk ...
Patients identified as low risk by DecisionDx-Melanoma had a 2.8% sentinel lymph node (SLN) positivity rate, well below the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN) guidelines’ 5% threshold to ...
Among all patients studied, 2.6% nodal positivity and 97.8% three-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) was observed in those predicted to have less than 5% risk of a positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) ...