Mayo Clinic Q&A: A look at the advances in staging and surgical treatment of melanoma.

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 . 5-mm margins do not increase the risk of melanoma-specific mortality or local recurrence compared with 10-mm ...

Mitotic rate ≥1/mm² and residual tumor presence are linked to higher relapse risk in cutaneous melanoma patients post-excision. Lymphovascular invasion significantly correlates with worse relapse-free ...

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 ...

Risk Group Assessment and Clinical Outcome Algorithm to Predict the Natural History of Patients With Surgically Resected Renal Cell Carcinoma PURPOSE: To evaluate the outcome and toxicity of a ...

Learn about superficial spreading melanoma, from the ABCDE diagnostic rules to the latest in immunotherapy, targeted care and surgical options. Superficial spreading ...

Melanoma in situ (MIS), also called stage 0 melanoma, is the earliest stage of melanoma, when the cancer is confined to the outermost layer of skin. Most melanomas affect the skin, but they can also ...