pDr. Steven Q. Wang, a world-renowned skin cancer expert, provides an essential guide for people with melanoma and their families. ppThe book's unique, practical format approaches the disease in two phases, just as people with melanoma need to do. First comes a step-by-step guide for what Dr. Wang calls the mad rush phase--an intense and stressful period from diagnosis to completing initial treatment. Dr. Wang's calm guidance helps readers through this critical time, using an easy to understand plan for ensuring optimal treatment and survival outcomes. Once the mad rush phase is over, the marathon phase begins--life resumes its normal shape but with lingering concerns about new melanoma and metastases. Here Dr. Wang addresses common questions about prevention and prognosis.ppiBeating Melanomai offers current research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of melanoma photographs of different kinds of skin cancers and a readable narrative that demystifies everything from the pathol