Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. About 9,000 Canadians are diagnosed annually causing approximately 1,200 deaths per year (1). As a cancer long known to plague mankind, the father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, described these potentially deadly skin lesions as “the fatal black tumour”. For millennia, there was a poor understanding of the causes and possible treatments. That changed in the 19th century when physicians noted the propensity of melanoma to metastasize and later how excising certain lymph glands might prevent the spread of this skin cancer (2). Continue reading “Melanoma: Through Thick and Thin”
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