Surgery for Melanoma

About the Video:
In this interview with Ellen Beth Levitt, melanoma expert Dr. Susan Kesmodel discusses the latest surgical approaches for treating melanoma. Topics covered include:

What is melanoma?
Melanoma risk factors
What melanoma looks like
Diagnosing/staging
Sentinel node biopsy
Surgery to remove melanoma
Treatments for melanoma that has spread
Recurrent melanoma
Melanoma prevention

About the Expert:
Dr. Susan Kesmodel is a surgical oncologist at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center and an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Related Links:

Dr. Susan Kesmodel
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/susan_b_kesmodel.html

UMGCC Skin Cancer Program
http://www.umgcc.org/cutaneous_program/index.htm

Overview: Melanoma
http://www.umgcc.org/cutaneous_program/melanoma.htm

Podcast: Dr. Kesmodel Discusses Melanoma
http://www.umm.edu/podcasts/2008/melanoma.htm

Video: Melanoma in Young Women
http://www.umm.edu/videos/misc/direct_connection_melanoma_kesmodel.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• kesmodel
• susan kesmodel
• skin cancer
• melanoma
• symptoms
• diagnosis
• treatment
• surgical treatment
• risk factors
• sentinel node biopsy
• prevention
• umgcc
• ummc

[Bombeni]

I'm scared. Have sore on neck, saw dermatologist yesterday now I'm scheduled to cut the spot out which is half the size of an eraser, he drew on paper the size and shape of a human eye which is what he is going to take out and said would have 5 of 6 stitches then will send that to pathology. This seems pretty radical to cut a big hole in a woman's neck before knowing for sure it is cancer. Which tells me he knows from experience it IS cancer and is taking the whole area to prevent spreading.

[sosome57]

Very informative. Thank you for posting this. Surgery scheduled next month. Scary stuff. Very scary stuff. Family history, too. Ugh.

[iamm3lissa]

@TheMagnum26 IM so sorry to here that. :( i just found out i have it.

[TheMagnum26]

My friend is stage 3 metastatic malignant melanoma and has double vision and now deafness. She had 27 lymph nodes removed. She is having an mri scan tomorrow but has had no chemo/raditherapy. She was a sunbed addict.