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Understanding treatment

Treatment information to discuss with your specialist.

Start with the overview, or choose a topic below. Each guide links back to this index and to the next reading.

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  1. Surgical treatment of melanomaStart here
  2. Medical treatment of melanoma
  3. Sentinel lymph node
  4. Drugs approved for the treatment of melanoma
  5. Melanoma plastic surgery
  6. Soft X-ray therapy of lentigo maligna
  7. Laser therapy of lentigo maligna
  8. Cobimetinib
  9. Dabrafenib (Tafinlar) and Trametinib (Mekinist)
  10. BRAF V600E
  11. Dabrafenib (Tafinlar) and Trametinib (Mekinist)
  12. Atlas of melanoma plastic surgery
  13. Vemurafenib
  14. Ipilimumab

This library includes historical material. Treatment and staging pages may need updating: use them as background for a discussion with your specialist, not as current clinical advice.