Treatment

Adjuvant therapy for melanoma can help prevent a recurrence of the serious skin cancer—but there's the potential for life-threatening side effects. Learn the symptoms and how to protect yourself.

Researchers continue to work to refine and improve the effectiveness, tolerability, and precision of melanoma adjuvant therapies to best suit each patient.

Learn more about these treatments that can help prevent your cancer from returning, what to expect, and whether they might work for your case.

If you have metastatic melanoma, how do you know if a clinical trial might be right for you? And what can you expect if you join one?

One cancer researcher says "we will be curing a significant majority of melanoma patients by 2030."

Find out whether you're a good candidate for follow-up treatment that can help keep the melanoma from coming back.

Advances in various therapies have some melanoma researchers optimistic about future treatment.

Follow-up care after metastatic melanoma treatment includes skin exams, imaging, screenings for other cancers, management of side effects, and sun protection.

Only four percent of skin cancers are melanoma, but it accounts for three-quarters of all skin cancer-related deaths.

You’ve gotten a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. You’re scared and uncertain for your future. A team of doctors will explain your options for treatment.