The number stage of a melanoma tells you how thick it is and whether it has spread. It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope.
“Melanoma awareness update. Despite my anxiety, I listened to the doctors and went in for my 3-month skin check last week since my previous melanoma,” she wrote via Instagram at the time.
The Breslow thickness describes how deep a melanoma has grown into the layers of skin. Doctors need to know the depth of a melanoma to help stage it. The stage tells you the size of a cancer and if it ...
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A Northern Ireland man has spoken out about his “traumatic” experience of being diagnosed with skin cancer in a bid to raise awareness and highlight the importance of early detection.