Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Department of Dermatology, MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA.
Future Oncol. 2019 Mar;15(7):791-800. doi: 10.2217/fon-2018-0631. Epub 2018 Nov 20.
The field of melanoma oncology is rapidly evolving with advances in detection, staging and treatment. There is heterogeneity in all stages of melanoma where some patients fare better than others for reasons currently unknown and it is sometimes unclear which patients warrant closer surveillance, multidisciplinary care, increased imaging, more aggressive surgery or adjuvant therapy. Early studies have shown the predictive ability of gene expression profiling (GEP) and institutions that have adopted GEP for melanoma treatment have demonstrated changes in practice patterns and patient management. The goal of this paper is to review the clinical evidence for a new diagnostic test, DecisionDx-Melanoma, the only GEP test for cutaneous melanoma with prospective studies analyzing its utility.
黑色素瘤肿瘤学领域随着检测、分期和治疗方面的进步而迅速发展。在黑色素瘤的所有阶段都存在异质性,由于目前未知的原因,一些患者的预后比其他患者好,而且有时不清楚哪些患者需要更密切的监测、多学科护理、增加影像学检查、更积极的手术或辅助治疗。早期研究表明基因表达谱(GEP)的预测能力,并且已经采用 GEP 进行黑色素瘤治疗的机构已经证明了实践模式和患者管理的变化。本文的目的是回顾一项新的诊断测试 DecisionDx-Melanoma 的临床证据,这是唯一一种针对皮肤黑色素瘤的 GEP 测试,具有分析其效用的前瞻性研究。