PUBLICATION DETAILS Publication Date November 2008 I.S.B.N. (print) 978-1-877509-04-09 I.S.B.N. (electronic) 978-1-877509-05-6 DEVELOPED BY New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG) Level 10, Cigna House 40 Mercer Street PO Box 10 665 Wellington NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 4 471 4180 Fax: +64 4 471 4185 E-mail: info@nzgg.org.nz ENDORSED BY More... REQUIRED TOOLS Documents are in PDF format. You'll need the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader to browse and print them.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Melanoma in Australia and New Zealand This guideline was developed in a collaboaration between NZGG and the Australian Cancer Network. Below is the full guideline, and under 'Summary' is the guideline separated into chapters. The resource for primary practitioners is an A4 4-page summary of the key recommendations (see first document under the Summary heading below). The resource for the public is available under consumer resources below. It highlights the importance of self-checking and what to look for when checking. Erratum for the first printing Page 159, Table 27.2 Survival Rates for Melanoma TNM and Staging Categories. Eratum corrected 5/6/09. Corrected in master file for subsequent printings. 4  FULL TEXT GUIDELINE PDF Format (2257.5 k) Minimum Download Times (in seconds) - 56k: 322.5s     128k: 161.2s     256k: 80.6s 4  SUMMARY DOCUMENT(S) Melanoma: an aid to diagnosis (practitioner resource) PDF Format (1.30 mb) Title page, contents, forewords, preface PDF Format (630 k) Executive summary PDF Format (35 k) Introduction PDF Format (238 k) Summary of clinical practice recommendations PDF Format (105 k) Chapter 01 - Prevention PDF Format (55 k) Chapter 02 - Population-based whole-body skin screening for melanoma PDF Format (73 k) Chapter 03 - Identification and management of high-risk individuals PDF Format (64 k) Chapter 04 - Classification and staging of melanoma PDF Format (51 k) Chapter 05 - Clinical diagnosis PDF Format (70 k) Chapter 06 - Biopsy PDF Format (53 k) Chapter 07 - Histopathological reporting of cutaneous melanoma PDF Format (86 k) Chapter 08 - Appropriate investigations PDF Format (75 k) Chapter 09 - Congenital melanocytic naevi PDF Format (52 k) Chapter 10 - Lentigo maligna PDF Format (50 k) Chapter 11 - Treatment of primary melanoma PDF Format (59 k) Chapter 12 - Management of regional lymph nodes in melanoma PDF Format (64 k) Chapter 13 - Management of locoregionally recurrent melanoma PDF Format (61 k) Chapter 14 - Adjuvant systemic therapy of melanoma PDF Format (41 k) Chapter 15 - Treatment of disseminated melanoma PDF Format (57 k) Chapter 16 - Psychosocial sychosocial issues in melanoma PDF Format (80 k) Chapter 17 - Palliative alliative care in melanoma PDF Format (59 k) Chapter 18 - Multidisciplinary care of melanoma PDF Format (46 k) Chapter 19 - Follow-up PDF Format (60 k) Chapter 20 - Clinical trials PDF Format (41 k) Chapter 21 - Treatment of desmoplastic melanoma PDF Format (39 k) Chapter 22 - Mucosal melanoma PDF Format (73 k) Chapter 23 - Occult melanoma PDF Format (39 k) Chapter 24 - Ocular melanoma PDF Format (43 k) Chapter 25 - Melanoma in children PDF Format (62 k) Chapter 26 - Pregnancy and melanoma (including hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives) PDF Format (56 k) Chapter 27 - Prognostic factors and survival outcomes in cutaneous melanoma PDF Format (55 k) Chapter 28 - Complementary and alternative medicine PDF Format (60 k) Chapter 29 - Melanoma in specific populations in Australia PDF Format (53 k) Chapter 30 - Melanoma in Mäori and melanoma in Pacific peoples in New Zealand PDF Format (51 k) Appendices PDF Format (330 k) Abbreviations and glossary PDF Format (62 k) Index PDF Format (56 k) 4  CONSUMER RESOURCES Consumer Resources Title Format Size Information for you, your family, whänau and friends pdf 473 k « Back 4  COMMENTS - Click to view We encourage readers to use this area to submit comments about the guidelines and to draw our attention to errors that inevitably will have been made in a project of this scope. 4  REQUEST THIS GUIDELINE - Order a printed version