Future Treatments in Melanoma

Melanoma is a highly malignant tumor that is relatively common in the United States. Surgical extirpation is the mainstay in treatment, but a multimodal therapeutic approach is increasingly important in the era of highly effective immune and targeted therapies. Although resection of melanoma will continue to be the mainstay of management for the conceivable future, improvements in multimodality therapy have and will continue to rewrite the therapeutic playbook for this lethal and increasingly complex malignancy for head and neck surgeons treating patients with melanoma.