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 ...

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Wide local excision with a 5-mm margin for smaller melanomas in situ (MISs) may be appropriate for sites at low risk of recurrence, Australian researchers suggested, despite recent guidelines ...

Q: My sister-in-law is 82 years old and was recently diagnosed with melanoma. She has an appointment for treatment in a couple of weeks. I thought this was a serious and deadly disease. Can a patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Positive margins are infrequent following standard excision, but when they do occur it is mostly in the upper ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with upstaged tumors saw an overall mortality rate of 36% vs. 19.5% in their non-upstaged counterparts.

This patient had lentigo maligna melanoma, a cancerous lesion that most commonly arises as a tan or brown macule on sun-damaged surfaces of the skin. 3 The lesion acquires a darker, asymmetrical ...

Dear Doctors: My sister-in-law is 82 years old and was recently diagnosed with melanoma. She has an appointment for treatment in a couple of weeks. I thought this was a serious and deadly disease. Can ...