Table 1. AJCC Staging for Cutaneous Melanoma Authors and Disclosures. Authors and Disclosures. Sue Noël, MSN, RN, AOCN, is a Patient Care Consultant, Schering Plough, Kenilworth, NJ.

Treatment options for this type of skin cancer depend on your general health, where it is, and how far it’s spread, among other things. Here’s a look at what doctors typically recommend.

New melanoma staging guidelines to improve consistency, accuracy of diagnoses By Brooks Hays New guidelines could help pathologists more consistently diagnose the severity of invasive melanoma.

The AJCC melanoma staging database was created in 1999 by an international collaboration that combined prospective melanoma databases from major cancer centers and clinical trial cooperative groups.

The American Joint Commission for Cancer (AJCC) revision of the melanoma staging system in 2002 changed the definition of “thin” melanoma from lesions ≤ 0.76 mm to lesions ≤ 1 mm. 1 This change ...

The number stage of a melanoma tells you how thick it is and whether it has spread. It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recurrence was lower in stage IIIA than IIB (29.7% vs. 33.2%) and lower in stage IIIB than IIC (35.9% vs. 36 ...

Teddi Mellencamp has shared a health update. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum disclosed in a post on social media this week that her melanoma diagnosis has progressed to stage 4 ...

However, patients in the stage I group that were found to have the highest risk, as determined by the DecisionDx test, had an 89.5% five-year survival, similar to risk estimates for stage IIb disease.

Melanoma skin cancer in situ is also called stage 0 melanoma skin cancer. This means there are cancer cells only in the top layer of skin (the epidermis). Surgery is the main treatment for melanoma in ...