Metastatic Melanoma

Patients diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma have disease that has spread from the skin to one or more distant sites in the body. Melanoma can spread anywhere in the body. It first tends to go to lymph nodes near where it started, but then can spread to the brain, lungs, liver, and bones. It can also spread to other areas of skin. (It’s still called melanoma, even though it’s moved somewhere else.)