Houston surgeon who chaired the melanoma expert panel for the eighth edition of the AJCC staging system, the classification doctors use to describe how far a melanoma has spread.
Jeffrey Gershenwald is a surgical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He chaired the American Joint Committee on Cancer melanoma expert panel and was first author of the 2017 CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians paper presenting the eighth-edition melanoma staging system, which refined the T, N and M categories using data from more than 46,000 patients. He also studies sentinel node biopsy and the molecular biology of melanoma progression.
| Title | Journal | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Melanoma staging: evidence-based changes in the AJCC eighth edition cancer staging manual | CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians | 2017 |
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Shares Stage IIB and IIC melanoma, Melanoma and the tag melanoma.
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