Surgery to remove (excise) melanoma removes the cancer and a border of healthy tissue. In the "Area of excision" picture: The inner circle represents the melanoma and healthy tissue that are excised.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Positive margins are infrequent following standard excision, but when they do occur it is mostly in the upper ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 5-mm margins do not increase the risk of melanoma-specific mortality or local recurrence compared with 10-mm ...

Purpose It has been hypothesized that wide excision alone with margins ≥ 1 cm may be adequate treatment for small, grade 1 or 2 ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). To test this hypothesis, we conducted a ...

Suspicious neoplastic conjunctival lesions often require wide excision with tumour-free margins, leaving significant conjunctival defects requiring reconstruction. In this study we report the results ...

PHOENIX — Mohs surgery appears to be superior to wide local excision (WLE) in patients with high-stage cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), according to findings from a retrospective study. The ...

Surgery is the “gold standard” of treating skin cancer, but disease type and patient preferences could determine which type of procedure is used, an expert said. Surgery is the “gold standard” for ...

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