Women were a younger mean age at melanoma diagnosis when compared with men across all anatomic sites and most Breslow thickness categories.

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

But there is a wide gap between how well White patients fare compared to Black patients. Melanoma is one of the cancers that it is contributing to the hopeful trend of declining cancer mortality rate ...

Lentigo maligna melanoma is a melanoma in situ on sun-damaged skin. It is a variably brown-pigmented flat patch on the head or neck of elderly patients. Its growth is generally slow, but it can ...

It's the second most common type of melanoma. Between 9 and 15 out of every 100 melanomas (between 9% and 15%) are nodular melanomas. It's most often diagnosed in people in their 40’s and 50's. It can ...

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 ...