MELANOMA SURGERY

A new era is dawning in the treatment of advanced melanoma and UCSF is at the forefront of advances to treat the disease. The Melanoma and Skin Cancer Surgery Program offers highly specialized, expert, compassionate surgical care for melanoma and other aggressive non-melanoma skin cancers that include Merkel cell, eccrine, and squamous cell carcinomas. Published data demonstrate better outcomes and fewer complications at institutions performing a high volume of melanoma and skin cancer surgeries such as at UCSF. Our program also specializes in the treatment of uncommon and very rare skin cancers, often rarely seen in the community setting and therefore more difficult to diagnose and treat. Our surgeons are all fellowship-trained surgical oncologists that specialize in the treatment of these skin cancers and, as appropriate, perform excisions, sentinel node biopsies, complete nodal dissections, and isolated limb infusions. Our surgical oncologists also routinely perform surgery to..