Purpose: Cancer susceptibility and mortality are higher in males, and the mutational and transcriptomic landscape of cancer differs by sex. The current assumption is that men are at higher risk of epithelial cancers as they expose more to carcinogens and accumulate more damage than women.
Background and Methods Skipped nodal metastasis (SNM) is a recognized phenomenon of visceral cancers when metastases bypass the regional basin and skip to a distant nodal basin without evidence of distant metastases.
Based on molecular evidence that melanomas with unknown primary (MUPs) arise from the skin, we hypothesised that sites of MUPs are disproportionately on trunk and lower limbs, sites that are not readily visible to patients and clinicians
Oncological skin defects of the extremities and trunk can be challenging. Our modified bipedicled flap utilises the principle of the bipedicled advancement flap, but allows for direct closure of the donor site (as opposed to skin grafting)
We read with great interest the paper by the authors from the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Section of the Yale University School of Medicine on the possibility of eliminating preoperative lymphoscintigraphy (POLSG) in extremity melanomas.
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on skin cancer surgery in the United Kingdom: a national, multi-centre, prospective cohort study and survey of Plastic Surgeons.
