How long can you live with melanoma? Melanoma treatment

The specific survival time after getting melanoma needs to be determined based on the tumor stage, the site of onset, and whether the treatment is sensitive. Generally, those who are in the early stage and have good treatment effects have a good prognosis and will not affect the survival time. However, for those who are in the middle and late stages and the site of onset is in the head, neck, or trunk, the survival time ranges from a few months to five years.

The survival time of melanoma cannot be generalized, because the corresponding survival time varies greatly according to the different development of the disease. Generally, early melanoma has shallow infiltration of cancer cells, and timely surgical resection, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and good recovery will basically not affect the normal survival time, and the five-year survival rate is also high. However, if it is mid-to-late stage melanoma and metastasis occurs, the five-year survival rate will be less than 35%. If it is distant metastasis, the two-year survival rate may be only 10%.
If the patient is a melanoma in stage I and IIA, he or she can survive for a long time after early surgical resection. However, in the middle and late stages, the five-year survival rate will be reduced due to poor staging. For patients with original lesions in the distal limbs, the survival rate is higher than that of the head, neck and trunk. For those who are more sensitive to immunotherapy, clinical cure and long-term survival can be achieved even in the middle and late stages. However, for those who are not sensitive to treatment, once the disease develops to the late stage, the survival time usually does not exceed one year.