Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte grade in primary melanomas is independently associated with melanoma-specific survival in the population-based genes, environment and melanoma study.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on October 14, 2013

Authors

Nancy E Thomas1, Klaus J Busam, Lynn From, Anne Kricker, Bruce K Armstrong, Hoda Anton-Culver, Stephen B Gruber, Richard P Gallagher, Roberto Zanetti, Stefano Rosso, Terence Dwyer, Alison Venn, Peter A Kanetsky, Pamela A Groben, Honglin Hao, Irene Orlow, Anne S Reiner, Li Luo, Susan Paine, David W Ollila, Homer Wilcox, Colin B Begg, Marianne Berwick

Author Affiliations

1: Nancy E. Thomas, Pamela A. Groben, Honglin Hao, and David W. Ollila, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Klaus J. Busam, Irene Orlow, Anne S. Reiner, and Colin B. Begg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Lynn From, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; Richard P. Gallagher, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Anne Kricker and Bruce K. Armstrong, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales; Alison Venn, Menzies Research Institute, Tasmania, Australia; Hoda Anton-Culver, University of California, Irvine; Stephen B. Gruber, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Roberto Zanetti and Stefano Rosso, Center for Cancer Prevention, Torino, Italy; Terence Dwyer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Peter A. Kanetsky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Li Luo, Susan Paine, and Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and Homer Wilcox, New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, NJ.

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