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What percent of nodular melanoma is diagnosed as stage 1 or 2?
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Melanoma: At the Cleveland Clinic, about eighty-five percent of melanoma patients have localized disease (stages I and II) on presentation.
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85%: 85% of nodular melanoma patients have localized disease (stages 1 and 2) at diagnosis. About 15% have regional node involvement (stage 3), and only about 2% have distant metastases (stage 4).
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