Excision of melanoma in situ remains more art than science. Those who use conventional excision are prepared for a high rate of local recurrence after standard 5-mm margins, and even after Mohs ...

Surgery to remove (excise) melanoma removes the cancer and a border of healthy tissue. In the "Area of excision" picture: The inner circle represents the melanoma and healthy tissue that are excised.

How does your doctor work out the stage? To diagnose melanoma your doctor removes the abnormal area and a small area of surrounding skin. This is called an excision biopsy. A specialist doctor ...

This is to help stop the melanoma from coming back. How does your doctor work out the stage? To diagnose melanoma your doctor removes the abnormal area and a small area of surrounding skin. This is ...

any melanoma including LMM that invades up to 0.75 mm into the epidermis and dermis has a 95% cure rate with excision and 0.75-mm to 1.5-mm invasion has 85% cure rate with excision. Deeper ...

Tumor upstaging in individuals with invasive melanoma is associated with worse overall and melanoma-specific mortality rates.

Only 20.83% of tumors that needed re-excision underwent additional surgery. A study found multiple factors that contributed to invasive melanoma tumor upstaging as well as higher mortality rates ...

I had a wide excision removal on my most recent melanoma last week to see if it did and sadly it did not,” she captioned an Instagram photo of her back, which displayed her scars from past ...

In 2006, researchers from the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MLST-1) evaluated whether wide local excision of the ... sentinel nodes with a minimum melanoma tumor Breslow thickness ...