 | Melanoma Treatment: Researchers Discover Why New Melanoma Drug Stops Working
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| | Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has identified a previously unknown mechanism of resistance to the newly approved melanoma drug, vemurafenib, an oral targeted ... [more]
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| Coffee Consumption Associated With Decreased Risk for Basal Cell Carcinoma
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| | BOSTON — Caffeine could be related to an inverse association between basal cell carcinoma risk and consumption of coffee, a study found.
The prospective study, presented at the 10th AACR Internatio... [more]
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| Melanoma: Watch Your Back
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| | Each year over a million people in the United States alone will be diagnosed with skin cancer. Of these, approximately 80,000 will be afflicted with melanoma. The incidence or the number of new c... [more]
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| Melanoma Drug Trial News: FDA approves new drug for advanced melanoma
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| | BOSTON— March 25, 2011: Food and Drug Administration today approved the use of ipilimumab for the treatment of previously treated metastatic melanoma. It is the first drug approved for metastatic, or ... [more]
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| Skin Cancer Bookstore
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| | Skin Cancer Book book section of CancerNews.com. Books related to skin cancer treatment, prevention, screening, survival and support.... [more]
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| Melanoma Research News: Gene Identified That Strong Affects Risk for Most Forms of Melanoma
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| | Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified a link between inherited and acquired genetic factors that dramatically increase the chan... [more]
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| Vaccine Shows Therapeutic Promise Against Advanced Melanoma
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| | A vaccine for one of the most lethal cancers, advanced melanoma, has shown improved response rates and progression-free survival for patients when combined with the immunotherapy drug, Interleukin-2, ... [more]
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| Melanoma Research News: Drug resistance mechanisms uncovered in most common form of melanoma
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| | Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that melanoma patients whose cancers are caused by mutation of the BRAF gene become resistant to a promising targeted treatment ... [more]
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| Mohs Surgery for Skin Cancer
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| | Mohs micrographic surgery is a specialized surgical technique that is used to remove cancers that originate in the skin. Using this technique, tissue is serially removed and processed in a manner tha... [more]
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| Melanoma Drug Trial News: FDA approves new drug for advanced melanoma
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| | BOSTON— March 25, 2011: Food and Drug Administration today approved the use of ipilimumab for the treatment of previously treated metastatic melanoma. It is the first drug approved for metastatic, or ... [more]
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