Sentinel node biopsy can predict melanoma progression
A study published on Cancer Research announces that sentinel node act as pivotal sites for determining progression patterns, revealing that the presence of CD30+ lymphocytes at those sites associate positively with melanoma progression. Read the abstract ! Vallacchi V, Vergani E, Camisaschi C, et al. Transcriptional Profiling of Melanoma Sentinel Nodes Identify Patients with Poor Outcome