Radiation is sometimes used to treat melanoma, but the therapy can do little beyond shrinking tumors enough to relieve a patient's pain.

It is used to treat multiple myeloma and ovarian cancer, and occasionally malignant melanoma.

The department had an interest in the physical properties of melanin as a possible hook to treating melanoma.

In treating melanoma, anticancer drugs may be given as a hyperthermicisolated limb perfusion.

Learn about the two most common types of surgery used to treat melanoma.

Levamisole is also used infrequently to treat melanoma and head and neck cancer.

One of these compounds, procarbazine, has been used to treat Hodgkin disease, melanoma, and lung cancer since the 1960s.

The drug is intended for use in treating metastatic melanoma.

The most common types of surgery used to treat melanoma include:

In 1961, Dr. Goldman became the first researcher to use a laser to treat a human skin disease when he treated melanoma.