Hereditary melanoma: a five-year study of Brazilian patients in a cancer referral center - phenotypic characteristics of probands and pathological features of primary tumors

• Main Authors: Bianca Costa Soares de Sá (Author), Luciana Facure Moredo (Author), Elimar Elias Gomes (Author), Erica Sara Souza de Araújo (Author), João Pedreira Duprat (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract: 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 kind...