Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 5-mm margins do not increase the risk of melanoma-specific mortality or local recurrence compared with 10-mm ...

About one in five Medicare beneficiaries experience a delay longer than 1.5 months between biopsy and the surgical excision of a melanoma, and approximately 8% wait longer than 3 months, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Treatment of melanoma in situ with Mohs micrographic surgery may have better outcomes than treatment with wide ...

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Stage 2 melanoma involves a significant tumor without lymph node or distant organ spread, determined by tumor thickness and ulceration. Treatment focuses on curative surgical excision, with adjuvant ...

Patients with small melanoma in situ (MIS) on low-risk body sites that was managed with 5-mm margins had a local recurrence rate of 0.9%, results from a retrospective case series from a single ...

Doctors diagnose melanoma by removing the abnormal mole or area of skin. They send it to the laboratory to check if it's melanoma and how thick it is. You normally have a second operation to remove ...

Melanoma is skin cancer arising from skin melanocytes (melanin pigment-producing cells). Subungual (under the nail) melanoma is a rare skin cancer constituting 0.7% to 3.5% of all malignant melanomas.

A 2cm excision margin on skin melanomas thicker than 2mm is as safe as a 4cm margin, finds a European study. Researchers conducted a randomised controlled trial between 1992 and 2004, with some of the ...