% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Thierauf:277316, author = {J. C. Thierauf$^*$ and S. T. Kaluziak and E. Codd and S. N. Dybel and S. Jobbagy and R. Purohit and A. A. Farahani and A. Dedeilia and V. Naranbhai and M. P. Hoang and A. S. Fisch and L. Ritterhouse and G. M. Boland and J. K. Lennerz and A. J. Iafrate}, title = {{P}rognostic biomarkers for survival in mucosal melanoma.}, journal = {Pigment cell $\&$ melanoma research}, volume = {36}, number = {5}, issn = {1755-1471}, address = {Oxford [u.a.]}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-01334}, pages = {378-387}, year = {2023}, note = {#EA:A102# / 2023 Sep;36(5):378-387}, abstract = {Mucosal melanoma (MM) is a rare subtype of melanoma with an aggressive clinical course. In cutaneous melanoma (CM), the absence of pigmentation and presence of NRAS/KRAS mutations are biomarkers indicating an aggressive clinical course with shorter overall survival. Similar data for MM are missing. We present the real-world outcome data in a cohort of genotyped MM patients and assessed the prognostic relevance of pigmentation- and NRAS/KRAS mutation status. We correlated pathological reports and clinical data with overall survival of patients with MM. Furthermore, we performed clinically integrated molecular genotyping and analyzed real world treatment regimens for covariates associated with clinical outcome. We identified 39 patients with available clinical and molecular data. Patients with amelanotic MM had a significantly shorter overall survival (p = .003). In addition, the presence of a NRAS or KRAS mutation was significantly associated with poor overall survival (NRAS or KRAS p = .024). Currently, it is unknown if the same prognostic relevance for the lack of pigmentation and RAS mutations in CM, exists in MM. Here we analyzed a cohort of MM for outcome measures and determined that two known prognostic biomarkers for CM are in fact novel prognosticators for MM.}, keywords = {genotyping (Other) / mucosal melanoma (Other) / pigmentation (Other) / prognostic biomarkers (Other)}, cin = {A102}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)A102-20160331}, pnm = {311 - Zellbiologie und Tumorbiologie (POF4-311)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-311}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:37390098}, doi = {10.1111/pcmr.13104}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/277316}, }