DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 36-year-old sister recently noticed an unusual mole on her shoulder. She is scheduled for some tests. Her primary care physician believes it might be melanoma. What is melanoma?

Staging is a process of finding out how far a cancer has spread. This includes describing the size of the skin tumor and whether it has spread to any other organs. A staging system is a standard way ...

Teddi Mellencamp has shared a sobering update on her health. On April 2, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum said in an emotional Instagram video that she now has stage IV cancer. Mellencamp was ...

Flow cytometry effectively detects CTCs in melanoma patients, offering a rapid, cost-effective alternative to molecular biology. CTCs are present across all melanoma stages, with a significant ...

This new method, presented today at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress 2024, uses tumour-specific profiling to detect antibodies unique to stage I and II melanoma ...

Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare cancer that develops in the pigment-producing cells within the uveal layer (uvea), which is the middle layer of the eye. UM is also known as intraocular melanoma. Early ...

A mom of four is struggling with stage four melanoma, which spread to her brain while she was pregnant — and she alleges it could have been avoided if her doctors had listened to her. Kelly Heather, ...

Skin cancer occurs when skin cells mutate and grow uncontrollably, most often due to ultraviolet (UV) radiation damage. While ...

Dear Doctors: My sister-in-law is 82 years old and was recently diagnosed with melanoma. She has an appointment for treatment in a couple of weeks. I thought this was a serious and deadly disease. Can ...

A noninvasive clinicopathologic and gene expression profiling (CP-GEP)–based tool, the Merlin assay, shows promise for identifying recurrence risks in patients with early-stage melanoma who do not ...