One of the largest studies of outcomes of treatments for LM reviewed 13,051 cases of melanoma in situ (Zalaudek et al., 2003), of which 95.9% were treated with excision and the remainder were ...

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

The type of skin cancer a person gets depends on which cells have mutations. Melanoma develops when mutations develop inside cells called melanocytes (meh-lan-oh-cites). These cells give skin its ...

So many changes happen to your body during pregnancy that it can be easy to dismiss a growing mole. You shouldn’t. Melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer, can begin during pregnancy. Being pregnant doesn ...