Dr. Iwei Yeh gave this month’s PASPCR seminar with a really nice overview of the current understanding of acral melanoma. This is a melanoma that forms on the hands and feet and is the most common type of melanoma in people with darker skin tones, such as African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics.
Did you know?
NF1 or SPRED1 are lost in 20% of acral melanoma
Acral melanoma is associated with areas of the foot that are under more mechanical stres
Acral melanomas exhibit copy number variant "hailstorms" in non-random locations in the genome?