Early detection and surgery to remove the melanoma cure most cases of primary melanoma.

Your long-term survival, or prognosis, with primary melanoma depends on:

By convention, it should be used after complete excision of the primary melanoma with clinical assessment for regional and distant metastases.

Surgery is the most common treatment for melanoma and is done to remove the primary melanoma.

The presence of multiple primary melanomas in the same individual may also provide a clue to an underlying genetic susceptibility.

They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern.

No second primary melanomas were detected in this group (expected 0.026).

No second primary melanomas were seen in this group, whereas 0.026 would have been expected.

Surgery to remove the primary melanoma usually cures melanoma if it is found early.

I have had three primary melanomas removed over the past 27 years and not one of them was in an area generally available to sunlight.