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Lymph node ratio in melanoma
Author(s) -
Spillane Andrew J.,
Winstanley Julie,
Thompson John F.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.24295
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , lymph node , lymph , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , surgery , oncology , pathology , cancer research , paleontology , biology
The N ratio is increasingly promoted as a better indicator of prognosis than the American Joint Committee on Cancer's N stage in a number of diseases including melanoma. The most likely explanation for these findings is variation of surgical quality that is able to be corrected by applying rigorous quality standards to complete lymph node dissections.