Pregnancy-associated melanoma occurring in two generations

We report of a case of malignant melanoma occurring during pregnancy in a w oman whose mother had a melanoma excised during pregnancy. There was no oth er family history of melanoma. To our knowledge, this has not been previous ly reported. A review of the recent literature suggests that pregnant women with melanoma do not have a worse prognosis when compared to matched contr ols, but may present with worse prognostic features. (C) 2000 Wiley-Liss, I nc.