"Melanoma: From Early Detection to Treatment" ed. by Guy Huynh Thien Duc

This book is aiming to present data and knowledge from most experienced experts in the field. The book covers main topics from the fundamental aspects to multiple approaches in the disease treatment as well as related features.

The book offers a global view concerning one of the most frequent types of cancer to which a substantial high proportion of people worldwide is confronted at some time point in life.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Fundamental Aspects of the Melanoma Biology
1 Overcoming Resistance to BRAF and MEK Inhibitors by Simultaneous Suppression of CDK4
2 Targeted Therapies in Melanoma: Successes and Pitfalls
3 Low-Penetrance Variants and Susceptibility to Sporadic Malignant Melanoma
4 Melanoma Genetics: From Susceptibility to Progression
5 Diagnosis, Histopathologic and Genetic Classification of Uveal Melanoma
6 Recombinant DNA Technology in Emerging Modalities for Melanoma Immunotherapy
7 Acquired Resistance to Targeted MAPK Inhibition in Melanoma
8 Pars Plana Vitrectomy Associated with or Following Plaque Brachytherapy for Choroidal Melanoma
9 Combination Therapies to Improve Delivery of Protective T Cells into the Melanoma Microenvironment
Section 2 Melanoma Treatment Approaches
10 Management of In-Transit Malignant Melanoma
11 Management of Brain Metastasis in Melanoma Patients
12 Surgical Treatment of Nevi and Melanoma in the Pediatric Age
13 Adoptive Cell Therapy of Melanoma: The Challenges of Targeting the Beating Heart
14 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Methotrexate Resistance in Melanoma
15 Surgery and the Staging of Melanoma
16 Melanoma: Treatments and Resistance
17 Management of Acral Lentiginous Melanoma
18 Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Melanoma and Surgical Approach to Lymph Node Metastasis
19 Cutaneous Melanoma - Surgical Treatment
20 Therapeutic Agents for Advanced Melanoma
21 Update in Ocular Melanoma
Section 3 Melanoma Related Features
22 The Menace of Melanoma: A Photodynamic Approach to Adjunctive Cancer Therapy
23 Study of the Anti-Photoaging Effect of Noni (Morinda citrifolia)
24 Inhibiting S100B in Malignant Melanoma
25 Immunomodulation