Craig Slingluff, MD, is a surgical oncologist that specializes in treating melanoma.
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My name is Craig Slingluff. I'm a surgical oncologist at the University of Virginia. Most of the patients I see are those who come in with a new diagnosis of melanoma and need definitive surgical treatment to remove it, as well as checking the lymph nodes by taking them out to see if there's any evidence to spread there.
I was interested in medicine really from an early age, some probably because family friends were physicians, and many of them were surgeons. Also, from a young age, I liked taking things apart and putting them back together again, which is consistent with my ultimate career in surgery.
When a patient comes to see me, commonly the patient has just been diagnosed with a melanoma. A lot of melanomas get caught early enough that their risk of spread and the risk of death from melanoma is very low. So I always want to give people realistic comfort when that's the case. I'm passionate about creating new knowledge, and a lot of what I do is developing and running clinical trials, especially of vaccines for melanoma to boost immune responses against melanoma for our patients.
