How should melanoma be treated? 6 common treatments for melanoma

Since melanoma is very harmful and difficult to remove with drugs, surgery has become the main way to treat melanoma. Next, let's learn about the treatments for melanoma.

How should melanoma be treated? 6 common treatments for you to choose from!

1. Palliative resection

Generally speaking, if the pathogen is located over a large area and is at risk of metastasis and cannot be cured, palliative resection surgery is the most appropriate option, because this surgical method can solve the patient's ulcer bleeding, help alleviate the patient's symptoms, and is the most effective surgical method for patients who cannot be cured.

2. Biopsy

Biopsy surgery is performed on patients with more serious melanoma. Generally speaking, surgical treatment of melanoma requires the removal of normal skin within a certain range around the pathogen and the normal area under the skin for examination. If the skin is found to be more serious with more serious melanoma, a detailed examination will be performed again to determine the extent of spread, and then decide whether to perform a large-scale excision surgery.

3. Primary lesion resection surgery

Generally speaking, primary lesion resection surgery is to perform lymph node clearance surgery on the suspected melanoma area in order to prevent further expansion of melanoma and better extend the patient's reproductive period.

4. Gene therapy

Gene therapy is currently a promising treatment method. It can directly act on the genetic level of melanoma and has few side effects on patients. It has received unanimous attention from the medical community.

5. Biological therapy

Biological therapy is the most popular treatment method after surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Compared with traditional treatments used in the past, biological therapy is considered to be a milder treatment method. Biological therapy has the advantages of obvious effect, good safety and tolerance, so it is also called scientific green therapy. It provides patients with a new treatment model and can alleviate patients' pain to a great extent.

6. Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the most common and widely used treatment method. It is mainly used as an adjuvant treatment for patients with early-stage melanoma and patients with mid- to late-stage melanoma. Compared with chemotherapy alone for melanoma, this combined adjuvant treatment method can improve the treatment effect and is currently the main treatment method.

Generally speaking, melanoma is extremely harmful, so you must follow the doctor's treatment advice, which will help stabilize and recover the disease. You should also pay attention to the development of your own disease after surgery, and consult a relevant doctor in time if you feel any discomfort.