Scientists are exploring a new treatment approach for patients with early-stage melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer.1 Doctors hope that by applying anti-cancer drugs directly into the tumor site, they can cut toxic side effects and improve cancer recurrence rates.   Currently, the way melanoma-targeting immunotherapy drugs are administered to patients causes whole-body side […]

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Speed and precision are essential factors in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Melanoma patients benefit from many therapeutic options, but too much choice isn’t always a good thing. This means selecting the best course from a variety of therapies can be slow and difficult. Lucky for us, new medical tech in the form of microneedles may […]

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Breakthrough research could mean personalized cancer vaccines become a reality. Melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer, arises from the continuous growth of pigment-producing skin cells. With stage IV having a five-year survival rate of 16.2%, effective treatments are needed promptly.   Conventional treatment supplemented with a personalized, anti-melanoma vaccine showed great promise in a recent […]

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Is DIY mole and skin tag removal safe? Medical advice would say, “no.”  What are skin tags? Skin tags equally affect 50% of men and women.5  Skin tags are medically known as acrochordons and typically appear in adulthood. However, skin tags are now appearing in childhood.5 The rise in children with skin tags may be […]

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Melanoma immunotherapy is a type of treatment that uses substances to re-stimulate the immune response, which leads to the development of immune checkpoint-blocking antibodies. This form of treatment can overcome the tumour microenvironment’s inhibition of T cells. Despite its success with most patients, immunotherapy did not work for everybody. As a result, a group of […]

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Researchers from the Moffitt Cancer Centre & Research Institute found a new way to use BRAF inhibitor treatment to help treat melanoma. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that begins in the melanocyte cells of the skin. The melanocyte cells are the cells that produce melanin, which is what gives skin its colour. The […]

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Scientists at Tel Aviv University investigated a vaccine for melanoma, the fastest-growing skin cancer. Melanoma is the cancer of melanocytes, the cells that produce melanin or skin pigment. There are several treatment options for melanoma, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy. Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a new approach – a vaccine using immunotherapy […]

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Identifying the presence of a specific high-risk gene mutation helped to reduce patient exposure to ultraviolet radiation The American Cancer Society estimates that 96,480 new melanomas will be diagnosed in the United States in 2019. They expect around 7,200 people will die from melanoma in the US in 2019. Melanoma rates have also been on […]

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