Practical Manual for Dermatologic and Surgical Melanoma Management

Dr. Delphine J. Lee is the Chief of Dermatology and Residency Program Director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center located in the South Bay. She received her MD and PhD at University of California, San Diego and completed her dermatology residency training and postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles. After serving on the faculty at UCLA for five years, she moved to build the Department of Translational Immunology at John Wayne Cancer Institute where her team developed studies utilizing bioinformatic approaches combined with immune studies to gain new insights into melanoma. She currently conducts translational studies on host-microbe associations and interactions in melanoma and other cancers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and serves as chair and standing member of the NIAMS AMS review committee.

Melanoma Prevention.- Prevention.- Screening.- Racial disparities/melanoma in non-whites with guidelines for all races on screening,-Monitoring (people at-risk, people who have had melanoma-follow up, genetic syndromes, atypical Nevus syndrome), -Primary Melanoma.- Diagnosis.-  Prognosis (staging).- Pediatric Melanoma/Spitz Nevi.- Ocular Melanoma.- Mucosal Melanoma.- Treatment of Primary Melanoma.- Mohs Micrographic surgery LMM; role for Immunohistochemistry.- Early stage disease in patients who are not surgical candidates.- Staging (surgeon)/Surgical treatment /Sentinel LN biopsy - when to perform, management of +SLNB.- Adjuvant therapy.- Treatment of Regionally Metastatic Melanoma.- Local therapies for local recurrence (Emanuel) local recurrence/intransit mets.- Management of the positive sentinel Lymph Node.- Radiation therapy.- Metastatic disease.- Targeted therapy (including a section on personalized therapy/genomics).- Immunotherapy (including a section on personalized immune therapies).- Neoadjuvant therapy.- Stage IV surgical management, including M1A, M1B, M1C disease.- Brain metastases.