[GAZING INTO A CRYSTAL BALL AND DETECTING SUBJECTS AT RISK FOR DEVELOPING CUTANEOUS MELANOMA]

Rev Med Liege. 2015 Sep;70(9):446-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Cutaneous melanoma is the deadliest skin cancer showing an increasingly growing incidence in white populations of Europe and United States. Intensive research in recent years has begun to unlock its molecular pathogenesis. Screening the neoplasm at an early stage remains primordial. Hence, targeting populations at risk is likely efficient. In such an attempt, the regular clinical examination benefits from a series of non invasive procedures such as skin surface biopsies, in vivo confocal microscopy, dermoscopy and specular fluorescent light reflectance.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Dermoscopy / methods
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Melanoma / diagnosis*
  • Melanoma / epidemiology
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Microscopy, Confocal / methods
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Risk
  • Skin Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Skin Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology