Sentences with phrase «genitourinary melanomas»
The incidence of genitourinary melanomas is approximately 10 times higher in women (2 cases / 1 million person - years) than in men (0.2 cases / 1 million person - years).
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[2,24,25] Genitourinary melanomas account for 57 % of mucosal melanomas and 1.3 % to 7 % of all melanomas in women.
Primary genitourinary melanoma: epidemiology and disease - specific survival in a large population - based cohort.
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Mucosal melanoma occurs in the moist surfaces that line the body's cavities, such as the airways, digestive tract and genitourinary tracts, and is not caused by UV radiation; there is no known cause.
Co-investigators on the study are Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, doctoral student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health; Christine Spencer, Tatiana Karpinets, Ph.D., Robert Jenq, M.D., and Andrew Futreal, Ph.D., of Genomic Medicine; Miles Cameron Andrews, Ph.D., Alexandre Reuben, Ph.D., Jeffrey Lee, M.D., and Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D., of Surgical Oncology; Michael Tetzlaff, Ph.D., M.D., and Alexander Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., of Pathology; Wen - Jen Hwu, M.D., Ph.D., Claudia Glitza, M.D., Ph.D., Hussein Tawbi, M.D., Ph.D., Sapna Patel, M.D., Michael Davies, M.D., Ph.D., and Patrick Hwu, M.D., of Melanoma Medical Oncology; Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology; and Jim Allison, Ph.D., of Immunology.
Co-authors with Gopalakrishnan and Wargo are Christine Spencer, Tatiana Karpinets, Ph.D., Robert Jenq, M.D., and Andrew Futreal, Ph.D., of Genomic Medicine; Alexandre Reuben, Ph.D., Peter Prieto, M.D., and Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D., of Surgical Oncology; Kristi Hoffman, Ph.D., of Cancer Prevention; Michael Tetzlaff, Ph.D., M.D., and Alexander Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., of Pathology; Michael Davies, M.D., Ph.D., and Patrick Hwu, M.D., of Melanoma Medical Oncology; Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology; Jim Allison, Ph.D., of Immunology; Carrie Daniel - MacDougall, Ph.D., of Epidemiology; and Diane Hutchinson, Ph.D., Nadim Ajami, Ph.D., and Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine.