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Washington, DC (January 27, 2025) – The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF), the largest independent organization devoted to melanoma, is excited to announce the official ...
Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer. In addition to genetics, increased sun exposure may put individuals at a higher risk for developing melanoma, although this i...
Teenagers who get five or more sunburns between the age of 15 and 20 have an increased risk of getting skin cancer or melanoma. Individuals with darker skin tones have wors...
Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy represents a promising approach for the treatment of patients whose disease does not benefit from conventional immunotherapies. ...
Radiation can be used as a vaccine, to increase the effect of immunotherapy. We call this Radvax, which is promising. Even in melanoma patients who failed anti-PD-1 treatme...
Melanoma, an aggressive skin cancer, can spread cancer cells to nearby lymph nodes. When removing a melanoma, surgeons will often also remove one or more lymph nodes from t...
Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. One of the most common and devastating complications of melanoma is the spread of cancer to the brain, which is called ...
Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in the U.S. Melanoma is an important public health concern and has a rising number of new cases and deaths per year. Prevention thr...
Pediatric melanomas are a rare and deadly form of skin cancer. Melanomas in adults have better studied than the pediatric variant due to the rarity of melanomas arising in ...
Melanoma can be classified according to TCGA into 4 genetic subtypes: BRAF, NRAS, NF1 mutants or triple wild type. A lot of research focused on BRAF and NRAS mutant melanom...
Prolonged sun exposure combined with other multi-factorial cues can transform skin’s melanocytes into melanoma cells characterized by uncontrolled proliferation. If not r...
When cancer cells metastasize to the brain, the diagnosis becomes terminal. In melanoma brain metastasis, patients are only given months to live. There is an urgent need to...
Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer with a low survival rate when it metastasizes. Melanoma originates mainly in sun-exposed areas, likely due to damage from sun ...
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