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Review article: Biomedical intelligence

Vol. 141 No. 4950 (2011)

Updated Swiss guidelines for the treatment and follow-up of cutaneous melanoma

  • R Dummer
  • M Guggenheim
  • AW Arnold
  • R Braun
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2011.13320
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13320
Published
05.12.2011

Summary

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.

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