Biological therapy tries to get your own body to fight cancer. It uses materials made by your own body or made in a laboratory to boost, direct, or restore your body's natural defenses against disease. Clinical trials are being done to find biological therapies that are effective. Treatment by stage Treatments for melanoma depend on the type of your disease, stage of disease, your age, and your general health. You may receive treatment that is considered standard based on its effectiveness in a number of patients in past studies, or you may choose to go into a clinical trial.
Surgery is currently the only standard treatment for melanoma.
Clinical trials are designed to find better ways to treat cancer patients. Clinical trials are going on in most parts of the country for most stages of melanoma. Conservative re-excision after biopsy. Wide surgical excision usually on an outpatient basis. Skin grafting may be done to cover the wound.