Source: Healio, June 2019 Participants were often not confident in their skin self-examination ability but value expert opinion from clinicians and are open to using technologies that help track skin lesions, according to a qualitative study from researchers at the University of Sydney. The study used semi-structured interviews that took place from June to December […]
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Source: ECancer News, June 2019 Blood tests that track the amount of tumour DNA can – after only one month of drug therapy – detect how well treatment is working in patients with skin cancer, a new study finds. The study takes advantage of the nature of cancer cells, which die and are replaced by […]
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Source: , June 2019 NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – An international team led by investigators from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) are pushing forward with efforts to validate a liquid biopsy technique involving the extraction and analysis of extracellular vesicles from wound drainage fluid in melanoma patients who have a lymph node surgically removed.
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Source: You Are Untitled, June 2019 The Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA) took the opportunity on World Melanoma Day (May 13) to urge Canadians to adopt sun-safe practices that will better protect them against melanoma and other forms of skin cancer. A new survey shows troubling trends in sun-safe behaviours among Canadians. This call to action from Canada’s […]
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