A skin cancer survivor has spoken of breaking down in hospital after being told he had Stage 2 melanoma at Altnagelvin in ...

In 1992, the technique of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB ... trial comparing wide local excision (WLE) and SLNB with WLE and observation in the treatment of melanoma. Many other areas of ...

After having a few moles removed, I was surprised by how long the scars took to heal. Here's what I learned about ...

Among patients with early-stage malignant melanoma who underwent standard excision, the incidence of residual melanoma tumor cells in tissue from a wide local excision was low, at less than 5% of ...

Over the last 2 decades, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the genomics, tumor immune ...

and nevoid melanoma were also associated with false-negative readings. Both punch and shave biopsies increased the chances of inaccurate microstaging compared with excisional biopsy (P<0.001 ...

Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare cancer that develops in the pigment-producing cells within the uveal layer (uvea), which is the middle layer of the eye. UM is also known as intraocular melanoma.

After excisional biopsy, the patient was put on topical tacrolimus 0.1% and photoprotection was ... Its morphologic appearance can mimic that of a melanoma.⁹ Skin biopsy is essential to confirm the ...

WIDE local excision and Mohs surgery are the leading treatments for melanoma patients with positive tumor margins, according to findings presented at the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery ...