Melanoma

Melanoma

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma (ALM)

Melanoma

Amelanotic melanoma

A melanoma with little or no brown pigment. It may look like a pink bump, a sore that does not heal, or another common skin lesion, so it is easier to miss.

Melanoma

Desmoplastic melanoma

A uncommon melanoma that often feels like a scar or a firm flesh-colored plaque on sun-damaged skin of the head and neck. It can grow along nerves.

Melanoma

Lentigo maligna melanoma

A melanoma that usually begins as a slow, irregular tan patch on chronically sun-damaged skin of the face, ears, or neck in older adults. The in-situ phase (lentigo maligna) can last years.

Melanoma

Melanoma

Melanoma

Subungual Melanoma

Melanoma

Superficial spreading melanoma

The most common subtype of melanoma. It usually grows sideways in the skin first, as an irregular patch, before it grows deeper. Early surgery is the main treatment.