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question about melanoma

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    • January 5, 2018 at 1:50 pm
    abeluta
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      Hi . which is the superficial spreading melanoma ?

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        • January 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm
        Jvlie
        Participant

          I think is the melanoma as growing in the horizontal way in the skinn. Spreading superficial has a better diagnostic then vertical way. But the most important is de breslow thickness. 

          • January 5, 2018 at 4:30 pm
          Janner
          Participant

            Superficial Spreading melanoma is a type of melanoma.  SSM accounts for about 70% of all melanomas.  Other types are nodular, acral, lentigo maligna along with other rarer varieties.  Typically a pathology report will call out the melanoma type.

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