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 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 ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center experts offer comprehensive melanoma care at the Multidisciplinary ... dye are injected near your tumor to find the lymph node or nodes where your cancer would spread ...

This is because cancer can spread through lymph nodes ... of healthy skin will be removed A sentinel node biopsy also allows the surgeon to determine if a melanoma has begun to spread, which ...

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...

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 around where the melanoma was. This operation is called a wide ...

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 ...