The clinical approach, epidemiology, diagnostic procedures, and management, along with followup of superficial spreading malignant melanoma are discussed. A 45-year-old Caucasian female presented ...

But in 2009, she began lengthy treatment for skin cancer after doctors inspected a mole on her ankle and found it was a stage three malignant melanoma. Caroline Madden cautioned those tempted by ...

Her results revealed that she had melanoma in situ, which means that a tumor has not invaded beyond the outer layer of the skin. It is the earliest form of melanoma and is "the easiest to treat ...