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Minimal Residual Disease in Melanoma

Biology, Detection and Clinical Relevance

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Uwe Reinhold

    1. Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes Haut- und Poliklinik, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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  2. Wolfgang Tilgen

    1. Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes Haut- und Poliklinik, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 158)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Biology of Micrometastases and Advances in Methods for Detection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Biology of Melanoma Micrometastases

      • R. L. Barnhil
      Pages 3-13

    3. Disseminated Tumor Cells: Diagnosis, Prognostic Relevance, and Phenotyping

      • K. Pantel, M. Otte
      Pages 14-24

    4. Nested Quantitative Real Time PCR for Detection of Occult Tumor Cells

      • N. Max, K. Wolf, B. Spike, E. Thiel, U. Keilholz
      Pages 25-31

    5. Detection of Micrometastasis Through Tissue-Specific Gene Expression: Its Promise and Problems

      • R. Jung, K. Soondrum, W. Krüger, M. Neumaier
      Pages 32-39

    6. Immunobead-Based Detection and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells in Melanoma Patients

      • Ø. Fodstad, R. Faye, H. K. Høifødt, E. Skovlund, S. Aamdal
      Pages 40-50

    7. Rapid Enrichment and Detection of Melanoma Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by a New Assay Combining Immunomagnetic Cell Sorting and Immunocytochemical Staining

      • C. Siewert, M. Herber, N. Hunzelmann, Ø. Fodstad, S. Miltenyi, M. Assenmacher et al.
      Pages 51-60

  3. Detection of Residual Melanoma Cells in the Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Detection of Melanoma-Related Transcripts in the Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow of Patients with Malignant Melanoma. What Have We Learned?

      • R. A. Ghossein, S. Bhattacharya, D. G. Coit
      Pages 63-77

    3. The Clinical Utility of Multimarker RT-PCR in the Detection of Occult Metastasis in Patients with Melanoma

      • B. Taback, D. L. Morton, S. J. O’Day, D.-H. Nguyen, T. Nakayama, D. S. B. Hoon
      Pages 78-92

    4. Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Detection of Circulating Tumour Cells in Peripheral Blood of Melanoma Patients

      • B. Schittek, H.-J. Blaheta, U. Ellwanger, C. Garbe
      Pages 93-104

    5. Facts and Pitfalls in the Detection of Tyrosinase mRNA in the Blood of Melanoma Patients by RT-PCR

      • S. Seiter, G. Rappl, W. Tilgen, S. Ugurel, U. Reinhold
      Pages 105-112

    6. Morphologically Intact Melanoma Cells May Be Detected in Peripheral Blood of Melanoma Patients

      • A. Benez, U. Schiebel, G. Fierlbeck
      Pages 113-117

    7. Prognosis of Metastatic Melanoma: No Correlation of Tyrosinase mRNA in Bone Marrow and Survival Time

      • V. Waldmann, J. Wacker, M. Deichmann, A. Jäckel, M. Bock, H. Näher
      Pages 118-125

  4. Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Sentinel Nodes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. The Predictive Value of the Sentinel Lymph Node in Malignant Melanomas

      • D. Bachter, C. Michl, H. Büchels, H. Vogt, B. R. Balda
      Pages 129-136

    3. Detection of Micrometastasis in Sentinel Lymph Nodes of Patients with Primary Cutaneous Melanoma

      • H.-J. Blaheta, B. Schittek, H. Breuninger, C. Garbe
      Pages 137-146

  5. Early Recognition and Monitoring by Serological Markers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Monitoring Malignant Melanoma with the S-100B Tumour Marker

      • J. M. G. Bonfrer, C. M. Korse
      Pages 149-157
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About this book

Knowledge about diagnostic procedures in melanoma has in­ creased rapidly within the past few years. Single tumor cells have been identified in normal tissue such as sentinel lymph nodes, as well as in bone marrow, peripheral blood, and other bodily fluids and cells, by molecular technologies. The introduction of polymerase chain reaction-based methods can be regarded as a prototype of this dramatic development towards molecular approaches in new diagnostic procedures. This fact opens up the possibility of clinical use in patients and of influencing treatment strategies. Considerable discrepancies have been described, how­ ever, in the success rates of these new techniques for the detec­ tion of minimal residual disease in cancer patients. Despite fav­ orable results reported by different groups of investigators, it will take several years to define the clinical and pathophysiological relevance of new diagnostic procedures. The 1st International Symposium "Minimal Residual Disease in Melanoma: Biology, Detection and Clinical Relevance of Microme­ tastases", held in September 1999 in Homburg/Saar, Germany, fo­ cused on recent developments in this particular area of cancer re­ search. The purpose of the meeting was to stimulate discussion and exchange of new data and ideas by renowned international scientists. The aim of this volume is to summarize major topics of basic research and clinical investigations presented by invited experts in this fascinating but still. controversial field of melanoma re­ search.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes Haut- und Poliklinik, Homburg/Saar, Germany

    Uwe Reinhold, Wolfgang Tilgen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Minimal Residual Disease in Melanoma

  • Book Subtitle: Biology, Detection and Clinical Relevance

  • Editors: Uwe Reinhold, Wolfgang Tilgen

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59537-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64015-5Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59537-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 268

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Oncology, Dermatology, Molecular Medicine

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