title: Cutaneous melanoma: practical usefulness of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system.
abstract: The 2002 American Joint Committee on Cancer melanoma staging classification is the first to be based on natural history. Although primarily for hospital tumor registrars, knowledge of the classification is of value to dermatologists in prognosticating for their patients and in selecting candidates for sentinel node biopsy and possible subsequent therapies.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA. asober@partners.org
authors.forename: Arthur J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sober
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000592:standards; D011379:Prognosis; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016019:Survival Analysis