TREATMENT FOR MALIGNANT MELANOMA
We show the different resources that the patient can access in our clinic.
- Surgery
- Surgical removal of the primary tumor within safety margins according to the depth of tumor.
- No palpable regional lymph nodes. If a tumor invasion according to the technique of sentinel node is confirmed Selective Lymphadenectomy. Indication of the sentinel node technique: DEPTH> 1mm.
- Adenopatías regionales palpables. Palpable regional lymph nodes. Elective Lymphadenectomy: Removal of affected lymph nodes.
- Additional treatment to surgery of the primary tumor. Specific immune-therapy with interferon alpha 2b. Indications: depth> 1.5 mm or lymph nodes histologically confirmed.
- Surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy. Metastasis of the malignant melanoma according to its location and size..
- Anti-tumor vaccines. Genetic Therapy

Dr. Pablo Umbert Millet
Director of Instituto Pablo Umbert · Dermatologist and Dermatopathologist
Dr. Pablo Umbert is one of the leading experts in clinical dermatology, dermatopathology, and Mohs micrographic surgery in Spain. With over 30 years of experience, an international career at the Mayo Clinic and Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris, and more than 100,000 biopsies signed, he remains active as an emeritus professor at Hospital Universitario Sagrat Cor, where he supervises clinical cases and trains new generations of dermatologists.


