Mohs surgery ‘no better than usual care’ for certain melanomas

The situation is different for lesions on the head and neck, researchers say
Reuters Health Staff writer
Mohs surgery on a lesion on the hand

Compared with wide local excision, Mohs micrographic surgery does not appear to increase overall survival in patients with trunk or limb melanomas, an observational study shows.

US researchers analysed data on more than 188,000 such cases in the National Cancer Database between 2004 and 2015.