A 30-year-old member asked:
Can you please tell me how melanoma and malignant melanoma differ?
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Dr. Otto Placikanswered
Surgery - Plastics 36 years experience
No difference: These are equivalent terms because there is no such thing as a benign melanoma!
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Dr. Thomas Fialaanswered
Plastic Surgery 35 years experience
Same thing: ...Just one is shorter to say. There's no such thing as a "benign melanoma", for example.
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Dr. Travis Kidneranswered
Surgical Oncology 19 years experience
The same: Melanoma is be a malignant tumor. Sometimes people only refer to it as melanoma and other times as malignant melanoma. They are the same entity.
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A Verified Doctoranswered
Surgical Oncology 20 years experience
Depth: Generally these terms are used interchangeably, but there is one exception. This is for melanoma in-situ which is very early stage and termed pre-invasive. If neglected melanoma in situ will grow and become malignant.
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