Primary cutaneous melanoma. Optimized cutoff points of tumor thickness and importance of Clark's level for prognostic classification.

@article{Buettner1995PrimaryCM,
  title={Primary cutaneous melanoma. Optimized cutoff points of tumor thickness and importance of Clark's level for prognostic classification.},
  author={Petra Buettner and Claus Garbe and Joachim Bertz and Guenter Burg and Bernd d'Hoedt and Hubert Drepper and Irene Guggenmoos-Holzmann and Wolfgang Lechner and Andrea Lippold and Constantin E. Orfanos},
  journal={Cancer},
  year={1995},
  volume={75 10},
  pages={
          2499-2506
        }
}

• Petra Buettner, Claus Garbe, +7 authors Constantin E. Orfanos
• Published 1995 in Cancer

BACKGROUND Maximum tumor thickness and level of invasion are known to be the most important prognostic factors for patients with primary cutaneous melanoma. However, the classification of tumor thickness and the question of whether the combination of tumor thickness and level of invasion provides a better prognostic classification than tumor thickness alone are still matters of debate. The present study examined the relationship between tumor thickness and survival probability to define cutoff… CONTINUE READING

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