Clinicopathological correlations in a series of 117 malignant melanomas of the skin of adults

ALIGNANT melanoma has long been conM sidered one of the most uncontrollable neoplasms encountered. Twenty-six years ago Stout2* stated "The writer has never come into contact personally with any case of malignant skin melanoma which has remained more than six years without evidence of metastasis or local reappearance." In contrast to this picture, in the last 15 years a number of reports have appeared in the literature indicating that when the condition is adequately treated, the survival rate may be comparable to or better than that obtained in other forms of cancer. Table 1 lists some of the series published since 1940 with the reported survival

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