Optimal treatment for clinically localized melanoma requires surgical control of the primary site and accurate staging of the regional nodal basin with sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB).

Your doctor then checks to see they have cancer cells in them. If your doctor thinks you need a sentinel lymph node biopsy, you have it at the same time as an operation to remove the skin and tissue ...

sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is an accurate method to stage the nodal basin. Interim outcomes data from MSLT-I showed no differences in 5-year melanoma-specific overall survival between the ...

Your doctor might find that melanoma has spread to your lymph nodes after: a physical examination shows your lymph nodes feel abnormally large or hard a scan shows that your lymph nodes appear ...