title: Updated Swiss guidelines for the treatment and follow-up of cutaneous melanoma.
abstract: Melanoma is the most common lethal cutaneous neoplasm. In order to harmonise treatment and follow-up of melanoma patients, guidelines for the management of melanoma in Switzerland were inaugurated in 2001 and revised in 2006. A new classification and recent results in randomised trials necessitated changes concerning staging and modifications of the recommendations of therapy and follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. reinhard.dummer@usz.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dummer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guggenheim
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: von Moos
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013557:Switzerland