Clinical Challenges in Surgical Oncology: Melanoma

About this episode

This episode discusses clinical challenges in the diagnosis and management of cutaneous melanoma through case-based examples.

Join the Behind the Knife Surgical Oncology Team as we discuss clinical challenges through case-based examples including the diagnosis, workup, and management of patients with cutaneous melanoma. Learning Objectives: In this episode, we review the workup and management of patients with cutaneous melanoma and both microscopic and macroscopic nodal disease. References used in the making of this episode: Reijers, I.L.M., Menzies, A.M., van Akkooi, A.C.J. et al. Personalized response-directed surgery and adjuvant therapy after neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab in high-risk stage III melanoma: the PRADO trial. Nat Med 28, 1178–1188 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01851-x Christian U. Blank et al. Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus adjuvant nivolumab in macroscopic, resectable stage III melanoma: The phase 3 NADINA trial.. J Clin Oncol 42, LBA2-LBA2(2024). DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2024.42.17_suppl.LBA2 Faries MB, Thompson JF, Cochran AJ, et al. Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma. N Engl J Med . 2017;376(23):2211-2222. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1613210 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28591523/ National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN…

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Host: Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Topics covered

• surgical oncology
• cutaneous melanoma
• clinical challenges
• case-based examples
• diagnosis
• management

Keywords

• melanoma
• surgical oncology
• clinical challenges
• diagnosis
• management
• nodal disease
• neoadjuvant therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Behind the Knife Surgical Oncology Team, National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Books & works: NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Cutaneous Melanoma, Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma

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