The main treatment for melanoma is surgery and, if melanoma is diagnosed at an early stage, surgery is usually successful. Mr Myles Smith has developed specialist surgical oncology practice, with special interests in soft-tissue sarcoma and advanced melanoma.

The surgical procedures to treat melanoma could include the following:

• Wide local excision for melanoma
• Sentinel node biopsy for melanoma
• Node dissection for stage III melanoma (axilla, inguinal, iliac)
• Core biopsy for lymph nodes suspicious for melanoma
• Excision of in transit melanoma metastasis
• Laser vaporisation of in transit melanoma metastasis
• Injectable therapy for in transit melanoma metastasis, T-VEC (Talimogene laherparepvec, or Imlygic)
• Surgery for skin metastasis of melanoma
• Surgery for abdominal metastatic melanoma
• Surgery for anorectal melanoma