Sentinel lymph node biopsy (histopathology) for staging melanoma
Breslow thickness greater than 1.0 mm
tests per year, UK, once, at staging
“Consider SLNB for people who have melanoma with a Breslow thickness greater than 1.0 mm.”
NICE NG14, Melanoma: assessment and management, recommendation 1.4.4, 2022-07
- Kind of source
- Clinical guideline
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- Thinner melanomas (0.8 to 1.0 mm) get it only with high-risk features (recommendation 1.4.3); stage IA gets neither imaging nor SLNB (1.4.1).
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.