# Jeffrey E. Gershenwald

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## TL;DR

Houston surgeon who chaired the melanoma expert panel for the eighth edition of the AJCC staging system, the classification doctors use to describe how far a melanoma has spread.

## Summary

Jeffrey Gershenwald is a surgical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He chaired the American Joint Committee on Cancer melanoma expert panel and was first author of the 2017 CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians paper presenting the eighth-edition melanoma staging system, which refined the T, N and M categories using data from more than 46,000 patients. He also studies sentinel node biopsy and the molecular biology of melanoma progression.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-18
- Tags: melanoma; surgery; staging
- Role: Surgical oncologist, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Specialisms: Melanoma surgery; Staging; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

## Connected records

- cancers: [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/), [Stage IIB and IIC melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/stage-ii-melanoma/), [Stage III melanoma (after surgery)](https://onco.cc/cancers/stage-iii-melanoma/)
- institutions: [MD Anderson Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/md-anderson/)
- key papers: [Melanoma staging: evidence-based changes in the AJCC eighth edition cancer staging manual](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-ajcc-8-melanoma-gershenwald-ca-2017/)

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