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Identification, genetic testing, and management of hereditary melanoma.
Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Mar 2017
Leachman Sancy A, Lucero Olivia M, Sampson Jone E, Cassidy Pamela, Bruno William, Queirolo Paola, Ghiorzo Paola
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Several distinct melanoma syndromes have been defined, and genetic tests are available for the associated causative genes. Guidelines for melanoma genetic testing have been published as an informal "rule of twos and threes," but these guidelines apply to CDKN2A testing and are not intended for the more recently described non-CDKN2A melanoma syndromes. In order to develop an approach for the full spectrum of...
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