Advances & More News / Broadcasting from AAD 2023 - Alberto Pappo, MD: Why Pediatric Melanoma Diagnosis Is In Flux

The concept of pediatric melanoma has evolved in the last 3 decades, one expert told HCPLive. In the early 1990s, every lesion that was possibly melanoma in a child was treated as such, Alberto Pappo, MD, explained. “We did extensive surgeries to access the status of the lymph nodes, then we gave adjuvant therapies…but over time we have learned there’s this spectrum that goes over the so-called pediatric melanoma,” he said. Source: MDMag. To view the third party content, kindly click on the link below or read more. You will then leave this site and enter a third party site.

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