Stage 0 melanoma life expectancy when from 60 years

The short version: age 60 at diagnosis doesn't change what stage 0 is, and nothing in this evidence measures life expectancy by age at diagnosis. What it does show is that the cancer itself is very unlikely to be what kills you.

Stage 0 means the abnormal cells are still in the top layer of skin. The treatment is removal, and the survival figures here are for melanoma in situ treated surgically: 92% with Mohs and 94% with wide excision at five years [1]. Those are overall survival numbers in people whose average age was 64 and 58.5 respectively [1] — close to your 60. Most of those deaths are from other causes at that age, not from the stage 0 lesion.

The honest gap: no record here follows a 60-year-old cohort and reports life expectancy. The 92% and 94% are five-year figures, not lifetime projections [1]. And a meaningful share of lesions called stage 0 turn out to have invasive cells once fully excised — the prior turn's 23% figure is not in this block, so treat it as carried over, not re-verified.

My call: at 60, a stage 0 melanoma diagnosis is very unlikely to shorten your life, and the surgical choice barely moves five-year survival [1]. Confidence: moderate on the direction, low on any specific life-expectancy number, because no record here provides one.