Surgery to remove (excise) melanoma removes the cancer and a border of healthy tissue. In the "Area of excision" picture: The inner circle represents the melanoma and healthy tissue that are excised.

You normally have a second operation to remove more tissue if you're diagnosed with melanoma. This is called a wide local excision. Your doctor removes a larger area of healthy skin and tissue around ...

Your doctor will tell you when to expect the results. It can take a couple of weeks. Your doctor will normally recommend an operation to remove a larger area of skin around where the melanoma was.

Use of SLNB for pure desmoplastic melanoma remains controversial. Accuracy of SLNB may be compromised in patients with prior wide local excision.

In 2006, researchers from the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MLST-1) evaluated whether wide local excision of the ... sentinel nodes with a minimum melanoma tumor Breslow thickness ...