Smaller surgical procedure sufficient for high-risk melanoma
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- A smaller surgical procedure is fully sufficient to treat patients with the more hazardous form of malignant melanoma of the skin. This according to a major international multicentre study, coordinated at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, which is now published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet. A smaller surgical procedure spares the patient undue suffering, gives better cosmetic results without compromising safety, and the results showed the same survival patterns as for the patients undergoing the conventional larger operation.