Our internationally recognized team of experts provides the most advanced care possible for all stages of melanoma and other skin cancers. You'll find care tailored to your needs and rooted in our groundbreaking research. We offer you:

• Doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants with decades of combined experience in melanoma screening, diagnosis and treatment.
• The latest technology to diagnose and treat skin cancers. This includes the ability to treat certain melanomas with Mohs surgery for ideal cosmetic results.
• Frequent tumor board meetings, where providers combine their expertise for patients with skin cancers.
• Nation-leading basic research on melanoma, plus clinical trials to test pioneering new treatments.
• The expertise and technology to monitor skin changes and to spot suspicious lesions early.
• A clinic to monitor patients at high risk of nonmelamoma skin cancer, such as those who have had a transplant.

Learn more

• Understanding melanoma
• Melanoma treatment
• Other skin cancers
• Meet our team
• War on Melanoma: Learn about our program to prevent melanoma, including our innovative Mole Mapper smartphone app.
• Start Seeing Melanoma: Learn about our public health campaign to fight melanoma in Oregon. 

Leading technology

Our center includes some of the most advanced technology available to diagnose and treat melanoma, including:

• Testing: State-of-the-art tests of your tumor cells at Knight Diagnostic Laboratories. These can identify tumor traits that targeted therapy can disable.
• Mohs for melanoma: Advanced technology — available at only a few centers in the nation — allows our expert surgeons to use Mohs surgery for some melanomas. That can mean much more effective surgery in removing all of the melanoma tumor while sparing healthy tissue.
• Imaging: Our high-resolution photography system takes full-body photos to help track skin changes over time.

Clinical trials

We offer patients access to clinical trials that are exploring new ways to fight melanoma.

Research

We work on leading-edge basic research to develop a better understanding of melanoma and how to treat it. Our research has helped us:

• Learn more about the safety and effectiveness of immunotherapies and vaccines for melanoma.
• Refine how we test to see if patients are at higher risk of developing melanoma.
• Explore genetic factors that increase risk for melanoma. This enables us to design and test melanoma-prevention medications, including some that help cells repair DNA damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

Cancer registries

We offer patients the opportunity to participate in OHSU cancer registries, including a Melanoma Community Registry and two others for skin cancer. By volunteering to provide information and sometimes tissue or blood samples, participants help researchers see patterns and make other discoveries. Participants also learn about the latest advances.