title: What is early melanoma?
abstract: One of the goals of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Melanoma is to facilitate communication between experts in a variety of disciplines. Toward that end, this paper explores the definition of "early" melanoma from a number of perspectives, including experimental, clinical, epidemiological, and legal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, NY 10016.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Kopf
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013997:Time Factors