Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup (GCIG) consensus review for vulvovaginal melanomas

Mario M Leitao1, Xi Cheng, Anne L Hamilton

  • 1*Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; †Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China; ‡Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; §Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; ∥University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; ¶Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Gynaecology Administration Block, Glasgow, Scotland; #Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; **Department of Gynecology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ††Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; ‡‡Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea; and §§Service d'Oncologie Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Lyon, France.

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