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Frontline approach to metastatic BRAF-mutant melanoma diagnosis, molecular evaluation, and treatment choice.
American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting - 1 Jan 2014
Chapman Paul B, Hauschild Axel, Sondak Vernon K
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An estimated 76,100 patients will be diagnosed with invasive melanoma in the United States in 2014, and 9,710 patients will die from the disease. In almost all cases, the cause of death is related to the development of widespread metastatic disease. Although death rates from most types of cancer have steadily decreased in the United States--a 20% decrease during two decades from a peak of 215.1 deaths per 100,000...
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