Treatments for melanoma skin cancer
Your healthcare team will create a treatment plan just for you. The plan is based on your health and specific information about the cancer. What you want is also important when planning treatment. When deciding which treatments to offer for melanoma skin cancer, your healthcare team will consider:
- the stage of the cancer (early stage, locoregional or metastatic)
- the risk that the cancer will come back (recur)
- where the cancer is located
- how treatments will affect how you look
- what you prefer or want
Surgery is the main treatment for melanoma. Immunotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy and chemotherapy may also be used.
Treatments for early-stage melanoma skin cancer
Treatments for locoregional melanoma skin cancer
Treatments for locally recurrent melanoma skin cancer
Treatments for metastatic melanoma skin cancer
Surgery for melanoma skin cancer
Immunotherapy for melanoma skin cancer
Targeted therapy for melanoma skin cancer
Radiation therapy for melanoma skin cancer
Chemotherapy for melanoma skin cancer
Follow-up after treatment for melanoma skin cancer
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