Familial Atypical Mole Melanoma (Famm) Syndrome

The incidence of cutaneous melanoma continues to increase rapidly worldwide. In the United States alone, the incidence of melanoma has been roughly doubling each decade, and according to the most recent projections by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER), it was estimated that 1 in 41 Americans would develop melanoma in their lifetime. In 2009, 68,720 new cases of melanoma were diagnosed, with 8,650 deaths attributable to the disease [1].