A skin cancer survivor has spoken of breaking down in hospital after being told he had Stage 2 melanoma at Altnagelvin in ...

In 1992, the technique of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB ... trial comparing wide local excision (WLE) and SLNB with WLE and observation in the treatment of melanoma. Many other areas of ...

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 ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a heterogeneous malignant neoplasm and can cause great morbidity as most occur in highly visible areas ...

After having a few moles removed, I was surprised by how long the scars took to heal. Here's what I learned about ...

Marjolin ulcer is a rare type of what doctors have described as aggressive ulcerating squamous cell carcinoma that might ...

Researchers utilized specialized genomic technology at the University of Calgary to enhance our understanding of Marjolin’s ulcer (MU), a rare, highly aggressive skin cancer that affects chronic ...

Therefore, a doctor may consider a skin biopsy medically necessary if they ... necessary to diagnose or treat a condition such as skin cancer. Even if Medicare does not cover mole removal, a ...

The melanoma was treated with wide-margin surgical resection (pT4b, 21 mitoses/high power field, 8 mm depth), followed by sentinel lymph node biopsy, which was negative. However, surveillance CT scan ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy ... The melanoma-specific mortality rate was 0.9%. The study’s limitations include its retrospective nature, modest median follow-up duration, and a lack of institutional ...