Apoptosis in cutaneous melanomas.

Cutaneous melanomas has become one of the most discussed and studied tumor because its particular immunologic development but also its increasing rate worldwide in the last decades. Even thought many patients are diagnosed at an early stage, the death rate continues to rise due to the increasing incidence of more advanced lesions. The aim of this study is to detect apoptosis in 30 cases of cutaneous melanomas using the in situ end-labeling technique (TUNEL) who quantify apoptotic cell death at single cell level and tissues.