Methods of melanoma detection

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 167, Issue , 2016, Pages 51-105

  Leachman, Sancy A ^a   Cassidy, Pamela B ^a   Chen, Suephy C ^b   Curiel, Clara ^c   Geller, Alan ^d   Gareau, Daniel ^e   Pellacani, Giovanni ^f   Grichnik, James M ^g   Malvehy, Josep ^h   North, Jeffrey ⁱ   Jacques, Steven L ^j   Petrie, Tracy ^k   Puig, Susana ^h   Swetter, Susan M ^l   Tofte, Susan ^a   Weinstock, Martin A ^m  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atypical nevi; Dermoscopy; Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); Gene expression profiling; Hyperspectral imaging; In vivo confocal microscopy; Melanoma detection; Melanoma digital photography; Melanoma prevention; Melanoma screening; Optical biopsy; Optical coherence tomography; Quantitative real time PCR (qRT PCR)

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

AWARENESS; BLUE NEVUS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONGENITAL NEVUS; CONTRAST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PENETRATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MACHINE VISION; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT HARM; PHOTOACOUSTICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF EXAMINATION; SEQUENTIAL DIGITAL DERMOSCOPY IMAGING; SKIN CANCER; SKIN EXAMINATION; TOTAL BODY DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; PATIENT EDUCATION;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DERMOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SELF-EXAMINATION;

EID: 84948845040     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22539-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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