It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope. Knowing this helps your doctor decide which treatment you need. Unfortunately, Stage ...

“I do wonder what would have happened if I got that one scan I begged for” A mom of four is struggling with stage four melanoma, which spread to her brain while she was pregnant — and she ...

Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The number staging system goes from stage 0 to stage 4. Stage 0 melanoma is also called ...

A mom of four is struggling with stage four melanoma, which spread to her brain while she was pregnant — and she alleges it could have been avoided if her doctors had listened to her.

which she believes allowed the melanoma to metastasize and eventually spread to her brain Now facing terminal cancer, the mom of four says, “I do wonder what would have happened if I got that one scan ...

The substages of stage 2 melanoma cover lesions up to 4 mm thick. Surgical removal is the usual treatment in stage 2, but how much margin of normal tissue is removed depends on the size of the cancer.

for stage IV melanomas have been so successful, 22-33 it was a matter of time before the first results of the first studies on these new therapies were available for adjuvant treatment of stage III ...