Metastatic melanoma, also known as advanced melanoma or stage IV melanoma, is more difficult to treat because the melanoma is now “no longer surgically removable,” according to Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD, medical oncologist and melanoma researcher at Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health.
To attack the cancer cells that have spread to other organs, doctors use adjuvant therapies — secondary treatments that help rid the entire body of melanoma.
Dr. Weber is a medical oncologist, melanoma researcher, and the deputy director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health.
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