NCCN guidelines for cutaneous melanoma, issued in February, capture evolving data for both diagnosis and treatment, diverging incrementally from 2019 AAD guidelines.
, creating some new standards of practice that extend a slow divergence from the last set of detailed recommendations released by the American Academy of Dermatology in 2019.
The additional biopsy "should be performed immediately and submitted in a separate container to the pathologist," Swetter said. Overall, the majority of guidelines, including those issued by the NCCN and the AAD, are aligned, except to the degree of the time lag that provides different sets of evidence to consider.
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