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Skin Cancer: Treating Melanoma

Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy are some of the treatments for melanoma. Dr. Ramon Jimenez, Chief of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Surgery with Miami Cancer Institute, explains local treatments are those given to the specific site where the melanoma came up, and the surgery is the most common treatment available.

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