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 ...

While melanoma is much less common than other types of skin cancer, it is the most serious because it is more likely to ...

After having 17 melanoma spots removed, ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ alum Teddi Mellencamp was diagnosed with multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Percentage of biopsies with a diagnosis of cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), or melanoma (including in situ disease) in which the pathologist communicates results ...