Teddi Mellencamp was diagnosed with melanoma in 2022. Since then, she's had multiple biopsies, surgeries and the cancer has metastasized to her brain and lung.

Surgery to remove (excise) melanoma removes the cancer and a border of healthy tissue. In the "Area of excision" picture: The inner circle represents the melanoma and healthy tissue that are excised.

This is important so that the melanoma does not grow back at the original location later. If the doctor did not take wide margins during your original biopsy, you may need another excision to remove ...

excision. In each case, the central melanoma in situ was debulked, and successive concentric 3- mm–wide saucers extending through subcutis were removed for frozen section inspection of the ...

“Get your skin checks!!!” said the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who was first diagnosed with melanoma in 2022 Teddi Mellencamp/Instagram Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave is sharing another ...

I also have 2 tumors in my lung. These are all metastases of my melanoma," she said. Teddi Mellencamp arrives at EA Sports presents The Madden Bowl at Orpheum Theater on February 07, 2025 in New ...

The following year, she underwent removals for additional melanomas before having a “wide excision melanoma” procedure. In December 2024, Mellencamp celebrated some good news regarding her ...

CE involved wide local excision or amputation evaluated with ... and time to definitive reconstruction of hand and foot melanoma," the authors write. The study was led by Daniela Frankel, BS ...