Now what constitutes a high risk patient?

There are several factors that would lead one to believe that a patient may be at risk of metastasis from their melanoma.

• The first thing is tumor thickness. This will be noted on a pathology report from the biopsy of the melanoma and will be listed as the Breslow thickness or the Clark's level.
  
  
• This is the thickness of the tumor as measured by the pathologist under the microscope and will be given in millimeters of thickness.

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