Impact of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Recurrence and Survival after Melanoma Surgery: A Cohort Study.

The aim of the study was to investigate if there was an association between intraoperative NSAID use and recurrence or survival. A cohort of patients who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy for the treatment of cutaneous melanoma was retrospectively recruited. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 516 were included (NSAIDs = 307).

[Epithelioid sarcoma: clinical behavior, prognostic factors and survival].

Objective: To relate the clinical characteristics and evaluations of patients with epithelioid sarcomas.

Methods: Careful analysis of 25 epithelioid sarcoma cases registered in Instituto Nacional do Cancer between june 1987 and july 2005.

Results: Mean age at diagnosis was 33 years old, ranged from 10 to 70.

Influence of sentinel lymph node tumor burden on survival in melanoma.

Background: Completion lymph node dissection (CLND) is the standard procedure for patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLN). With extensive pathological workup, increased numbers of small metastatic deposits are detected in SLN. This study evaluated the prognostic significance of SLN metastatic deposits < or = 0.