title: Staging of melanoma: a critique of the most recent (2002) system proposed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer: part II.
abstract: The most recent effort in 2002 by the American Joint Committee on Cancer for staging melanoma is not a job more effective than the first endeavor of that Committee in 1962; conjecture, speculation, and supposition reign.
authors.affiliation: Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York, NY 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Jiachun X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Kung
authors.forename: A Bernard
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Ackerman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000592:standards; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*