Stage 1 melanoma is treatable with surgery, and when combined with early detection, proper care and regular follow-ups, it offers a favorable outlook. Stage 1 melanoma is treatable with surgery, and ...

Staging is a process of finding out how far a cancer has spread. This includes describing the size of the skin tumor and whether it has spread to any other organs. A staging system is a standard way ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adolescents and young adults with stage IV melanoma experienced significantly lower survival rates compared with ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 36-year-old sister recently noticed an unusual mole on her shoulder. She is scheduled for some tests. Her primary care physician believes it might be melanoma. What is melanoma?

Researchers studied the effect of a second primary melanoma on overall survival among patients with a previous cutaneous or non-cutaneous melanoma.

The increasing rate of melanoma diagnosis may not be due to actual disease, the authors of a new study posit; instead, it may be due to overdiagnosis of patients with an actual very low risk of death.

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 ...

An academic randomized trial undertaken in patients with anti–PD-1 refractory melanoma demonstrated more than a doubling of PFS (7.2 v 3.1 months, hazard ratio [HR], 0.50, P < .001) with TILs compared ...