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Hereditary melanoma: a five-year study of Brazilian patients in a cancer referral center - phenotypic characteristics of probands and pathological features of primary tumors.
Anais brasileiros de dermatologia - 1 Jun 2018
Sá Bianca Costa Soares de, Moredo Luciana Facure, Gomes Elimar Elias, Araújo Erica Sara Souza de, Duprat João Pedreira
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Approximately five to 10% of all melanomas occur in families with hereditary predisposition and the main high-risk melanoma susceptibility gene is the CDKN2A. OBJECTIVES: To describe, after a five-years study, the clinical data of patients (probands) from familial melanoma kindreds, and the pathological characteristics of their melanoma. METHODS: The inclusion criteria were melanoma patients with a...
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