Melanoma is an aggressive and potentially deadly form of skin cancer that often resists standard treatments. Recent advances in immunotherapy—using the body’s own immun...

Surgical removal of early melanomas has a high survival rate of 98%, but metastasis, the spread of cancer to other sites in the body, brings that survival rate down to 50%....

Primary melanoma tumors can have small nests of cancer cells called “microsatellites” neighboring the primary tumor. The presence of microsatellitosis has been ...