Follow-up strategy description
| Follow-up strategy | Description | |
| Intervention | No imaging follow-up | No further routine imaging during follow-up. Clinical visit every 4 months for the first 3 years, every 6 months in years 4–5. Patients receive imaging if either the patient or doctor identifies signs/symptoms suggesting recurrence |
| Comparators | Intensive surveillance imaging | Patients given routine imaging every 3–4 months during the first 3 years, every 6 months in years 4–5. Clinical visit with a melanoma specialist at the time of each scan |
| Routine 6-monthly imaging | Two PET/CT scans per year for 5 years. Clinical visit with a melanoma specialist at the time of each scan +every 3 months in between | |
| Routine 12-monthly imaging | One PET/CT scan per year for 5 years. Clinical visit with a melanoma specialist at the time of the scan |
PET, positron emission tomography.