Part I. Clinical Challenges and Current Status of Treatment of Melanoma
1. Novel Insights/translational Implication from the Emerging Biology of Melanoma
Antoni Ribas
2. Emerging Clinical Issues in Melanoma in the Molecularly Targeted Era
Ryan J. Sullivan and Michael B. Atkins
3. Integrating Molecular Biomarkers Into Current Clinical Management In Melanoma
Ragini Kudchadkar, Geoffrey Gibney, and Vernon K. Sondak
Part II. Biomarkers for Prediction of Response and Resistance to Treatment
4. Advances in Adjuvant Therapy: Potential for Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers
Diwakar Davar, Ahmad A. Tarhini, Helen Gogas, and John M. Kirkwood
5. Immunologic Monitoring of Cancer Vaccine Trials Using the ELISPOT Assay
Lisa H. Butterfield and Mary Jo Buffo
6. Markers for Anti-Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte Antigen 4 (CTLA-4) Therapy in Melanoma
Michael A. Postow, Jianda Yuan, Shigehisa Kitano, Alexander M. Lesokhin, and Jedd D. Wolchok
7. Marker Utility for Combination Therapy
Ester Simeone, Antonio M. Grimaldi, and Paolo A. Ascierto
8. Assaying for BRAF V600E in Tissue and Blood in Melanoma
David J. Panka, James W. Mier, and Ryan J. Sullivan
9. Selecting Patients for KIT Inhibition in Melanoma
Richard D. Carvajal, Omid Hamid, and Cristina R. Antonescu
10. Detecting Mechanisms of Acquired BRAF inhibitor Resistance in Melanoma
Roger Lo and Hubing Shi
11. Current Status of Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers in Melanoma
Danielle Levine and David E. Fisher
12. Chromosomal Copy Number Analysis in Melanoma Diagnostics
Jeffrey P. North, Swapna Vemula, and Boris C. Bastian
13. Construction and Analysis of Multi-Parameter Prognostic Models for Melanoma Outcome
Bonnie E. Gould Rothberg and David L. Rimm
14. Immunohistochemical Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers for Melanoma
Mehdi Nosrati and Mohammed Kashani-Sabet
15. Lymphatic Invasion as a Prognostic Biomarker in Primary Cutaneous Melanoma
Xiaowei Xu, Phyllis A. Gimotty, DuPont Guerry, Giorgos Karakousis, and David E. Elder
16. Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes and Their Significance in Melanoma Prognosis
Tobias Schatton, Richard A. Scolyer, John F. Thompson, and Martin C. Mihm, Jr.
17. Pathological Staging of Melanoma
David E. Elder
18. Genotyping of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Ancestral Haplotypes as Prognostic Marker in Cancer Using PCR Analysis
Lisa Villabona, Emilia Andersson, Maddalena Marchesi, and Giuseppe V. Masucci
19. B7-H Abnormalities in Melanoma and Clinical Relevance
Barbara Seliger
20. Melanoma Susceptibility Genes and Risk Assessment
Alexander Marxuka-Alcalá, Michele Jacobs Gabree, and Hensin Tsao
Part IV. Uveal Melanoma
21. Clinical, Pathologic, and Imaging Features, and Biological Markers of Uveal Melanoma
Hans E. Grossniklaus and Alia B. Rashid
22. A Prognostic Test to Predict Risk of Metastasis in Uveal Melanoma Based on a 15-Gene Expression Profile
J. William Harbour
23. Molecular Karyotyping for Detection of Prognostic Markers in Fine Needle Aspirate Biopsy Samples of Uveal Melanoma
Arupa Ganguly, Jennifer Richards-Yutz, and Kathryn G. Ewens
Part V. Emerging Markers/Targets in Melanoma
24. ERBB4 Mutation Analysis: Emerging Molecular Target for Melanoma Treatment
Christopher Lau, Keith J. Killian, Yardena Samuels, and Udo Rudloff
25. Epigenetic Markers of Prognosis in Melanoma
Luca Sigalotti, Elisabetta Fratta, Giul