Understanding the Prognosis of Metastatic Melanoma

Published 2017-05-24
Michael A. Davies, MD, PhD, reviews the case of a 52-year-old female patient who presents with newly diagnosed metastatic melanoma and describes the prognosis for this patient, highlighting the importance of excision margin guidelines and lymph node dissection.

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All Comments (7)
  • @globaldayz
    Can this be cured completely or only treated?
  • @ThePHYL
    This patient sounds like like mine….nodual melanoma large with ulceration, I had wide increase….now it is my lung, almost a year later, but many noduals in the lung, I see in 2 days what my treatment option are, I am 74 yrs old, I am sure that will play into what type of treatment they can give me….
  • @sarahmilner8483
    This guy is typical example of someone with zero charisma, zero empathy, zero feeling, totally unlikeable. This is what's wrong with medical staff they lack all the above.. Patients need more humans