Most specialists can't spot the difference between a Spitz nevus and a melanoma lesion. Atypical Spitz tumors are associated with a good prognosis, but spitzoid melanoma can be deadly, a 10-year ...

Comprehensive clinical genomic testing of an adolescent patient, including whole genome sequencing, helped researchers identify mutations in a single gene that drive the most common childhood melanoma ...

Melanoma is rare in children. However, the clinical features of the disease in this population have been well-documented through single-institution experiences and population-based analyses. Still, ...

Comprehensive clinical genomic testing of an adolescent patient, including whole genome sequencing, helped researchers identify mutations in a single gene that drive the most common childhood melanoma ...

Melanoma in children is a rare entity. Based on 2006–2010 SEER data, it is estimated that melanoma accounts for approximately 2% of all malignances in patients younger than 20. 1 The majority of these ...

Melanoma in some adolescent and adult patients involves many of the same genetic alterations and would likely respond to the same therapy, researchers have found. "Until now the genetic basis of ...

It is estimated that there are approximately 400 new cases of melanomas diagnosed annually in the U.S. among those aged younger than 19 years. Melanoma is the most common type of skin cancer that ...

“It all started with a bump on her arm,” says Dr. Lydia Turnbull. At the time, her daughter Lainey was 18 months old. Physicians are trained to think of horses — not zebras — when they hear hoof beats ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Melanoma survival rates in children and adolescent patients were around 90% or higher, according to a study.

Although melanoma incidence has been reported in Europe overall for the past several decades, specific numbers on the cancer’s incidence in Finland, as well as disease trends, have remained unknown.

At first, it was a crafty way for a 10-year-old boy with a rare melanoma to kill time on trips to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., about two hours away from his home.Now, Graham Fowler's hobby of ...