The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

An 18-year-old woman with skin type IV and an unremarkable family ... for a matrix biopsy that showed the presence of melanoma in situ. The therapeutic approach was the complete resection of ...

Targeted cancer drugs work by targeting the differences in cancer cells that help them to grow and survive. Other drugs help the immune system to attack the cancer. They are called immunotherapies.

Reported recurrence rates of lentigo maligna treated with Mohs micrographic surgery have ranged from 0.5 to 30.0% in the ...

A complex between green-synthesized silver nanoparticles and chlorhexidine has shown explicit anti-tumor activity against human melanoma. A trustful concentration range was established in which the ...

Of the more than 250 skin lesions examined, physicians found 11 melanomas and 10 precursors of cancer, known as in situ melanoma. The app found all the melanomas, and missed only one precursor.