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2. Melanoma - Wikipedia

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   Neither sentinel lymph node biopsy nor other diagnostic tests should be performed to evaluate early, thin melanoma, including melanoma in situ, T1a melanoma or T1b melanoma ≤ 0.5mm. [114] People with these conditions are unlikely to have the cancer spread to their lymph nodes or anywhere else and have a 5-year survival rate of 97%. [ 114 ]

3. Superficial spreading melanoma - Wikipedia

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   Treatment is by excisional biopsy, wide local excision and possibly sentinel node biopsy. Localized melanoma, which has not spread beyond the skin, has a very good prognosis with low recurrence rates. Spread of disease to local lymph nodes or distant sites (typically brain, bone, skin and lung) marks a decidedly poor prognosis.

4. Acral lentiginous melanoma - Wikipedia

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   In the event that the melanoma spreads to other sites such as the lymph nodes, another biopsy called the Sentinel lymph node biopsy may provide more information in terms of outcomes. [21] More extensive melanomas may require wider excision (margins of 0.5 cm or more), digital amputation, lymphangiogram with lymph node dissection, or ...

5. Lymphadenectomy - Wikipedia

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   Lymphadenectomy, or lymph node dissection, is the surgical removal of one or more groups of lymph nodes. [1] It is almost always performed as part of the surgical management of cancer . In a regional lymph node dissection , some of the lymph nodes in the tumor area are removed; in a radical lymph node dissection , most or all of the lymph nodes ...

6. FDA approves groundbreaking treatment for advanced melanoma - AOL

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   Ten years later, Bennett is convinced the TIL therapy is the reason he has survived so long with stage 4 melanoma, which usually has a five-year survival rate of 22.5%.

7. Sentinel lymph node - Wikipedia

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   The concept of the sentinel lymph node is important because of the advent of the sentinel lymph node biopsy technique, also known as a sentinel node procedure.This technique is used in the staging of certain types of cancer to see if they have spread to any lymph nodes, since lymph node metastasis is one of the most important prognostic signs.