Guía de práctica clínica para el seguimiento del paciente operado de melanoma. Actualización 2024

Cutaneous Cancer Center

doi:10.47196/da.v30i3.2670

Authors

Cutaneous Cancer Center Austral University Hospital, Austral University, Pilar, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47196/da.v30i3.2670

Keywords:

melanoma, clinical practice guideline, follow-up

Abstract

A practical guide is presented for everyday work in the follow-up of melanoma patients. It was developed in an interdisciplinary manner by the Skin Cancer Center of the Austral University Hospital to provide standardized management for our patients. To create it, we based our work on the NCCN Guidelines© on melanoma and the Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In addition, on the usual discussion of patients in the athenaeums and with an ad hoc commission of experts for its drafting. It includes risk factors, diagnostic criteria, and sentinel lymph node indication. Patients are then divided into low, medium, and high-risk categories according to staging and follow-up recommendations.

Author Biography

Cutaneous Cancer Center, Austral University Hospital, Austral University, Pilar, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Members of the Cutaneous Cancer Center as a whole and as an interdisciplinary effort

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