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Reminder – Melanoma Consumer Breakfast this Saturday 6th October 2108

Sat 6th October 2018, 8:00-9:30am All members of the melanoma community are invited to attend a Melanoma Consumer Breakfast. The Breakfast is part of the Australasian Melanoma Conference – which also has great consumer forums. The program is on the website. All bookings can be made via the conference website http://australasianmelanoma.org/

Melanoma survivors march to honour lost friends and raise awareness

Melanoma has a reputation for being one of the most curable types of cancers, but that does not mean much to survivors such as Jay Allen and Aaron Kelly.

Free skin checks for South West community

The Bunbury Skin Cancer Clinic is partnering with melanomaWA to provide the community with free skin checks on February 24.

Townsville’s First Ever Twilight Melanoma March

She will next month join Townsville’s first ever twilight Melanoma March in honour of her mother, Gina Sellen, who lost her battle against the deadly cancer in 2016.

Cancer in the News

Feature Articles

Nationally Regarded Melanoma Research Advocate and Founder, President of AIM at Melanoma, Val Guild, Dies

San Rafael, CA, May 24, 2020 –(PR.com)– It is with profound sadness that AIM at Melanoma announces the death of its Founder and President, Valerie Guild, on May 21, 2020 from complications of ovarian cancer.

Posted in Melanoma News, Health Professionals, Patients, Latest News, Of Interest

Patients in CheckMate 067 Demonstrate Durable Complete Responses

Georgina V. Long, BSc, PhD, MBBS, co-medical director of Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, discusses the response rates in the CheckMate 067 trial (NCT01844505), which evaluated the combination of ipilimumab (Yervoy) and nivolumab (Opdivo) in patients with advanced […]

Posted in Melanoma News, Health Professionals, Video Reports

Inherited genetic variations can alter progression of melanoma, indicates study

Sometimes cancer stays put, but often it metastasizes, spreading to new locations in the body. It has long been suspected that genetic mutations arising inside tumor cells drive this potentially devastating turn of events.

Posted in Melanoma News, Health Professionals, Of Interest

Melanoma Articles for Feb-April 2020

Please click on the link to see a list of melanoma journal articles that came across the MRV desk recently.

Posted in Melanoma News, Publications, Scientific Publications

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