Malignant melanoma is the fastest-growing and 7th ... with high index of suspicions allowed us to perform an excisional biopsy which was also adequate for the primary treatment of this superficial ...

In total, 2001 patients with primary melanoma Breslow depth ... randomized in a 3:2 ratio to: wide local excision (WLE) plus sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) with immediate completion lymph ...

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 ...

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This is important so that the melanoma does not grow back at the original location later. If the doctor did not take wide margins during your original biopsy, you may need another excision to remove ...

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.

Treatment for skin cancer will depend on the stage of the disease. Sometimes, a biopsy can remove all of the cancerous ... to freeze early skin cancers limited to the skin’s top layer. Excisional ...

or changes in the way an area of the skin looks may be a sign of melanoma. If cancer is suspected, a skin biopsy will be performed. Once a pathologist looks at the biopsy results, a team of physicians ...