There was a good response in terms of resectability and tumour control in the majority of patients, with few relapses, despite the initially poor prognosis of these tumours in this elderly group of patients. However, this therapeutic strategy needs to be validated in a prospective, randomized study.
DEAR EDITOR, BRCA1-associated protein (BAP)1-inactivated melanocytic naevus/tumours (BIMN/Ts) are specific skin tumours that appear during the first two decades of life. 1 These lesions must be recognized by dermatologists and pathologists as an early predictive marker of BAP1 cancer syndrome, as they may precede the development of uveal and cutaneous melanomas, mesotheliomas, lung adenocarcinomas, renal cell carcinomas and meningiomas by several years. 2,3 The dermoscopic
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