Source: News Daily, June 2019 Australians are increasingly turning to their phones to keep an eye on suspicious skin spots, new research has shown – but medical experts have warned it’s not as foolproof as it sounds. Skin cancer apps for smartphones have been around for about five years, and claim to let users do […]
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Source: Docwire, June 2019 BACKGROUND: Patients who have unresectable or metastatic melanoma with a BRAF V600E or V600K mutation have prolonged progression-free survival and overall survival when receiving treatment with BRAF inhibitors plus MEK inhibitors. However, long-term clinical outcomes in these patients remain undefined. To determine 5-year survival rates and clinical characteristics of the patients with durable […]
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Source: Modern Medicine Network, June 2019 Elderly patients diagnosed with melanoma appear to experience less extensive metastatic disease than adults diagnosed at younger ages, despite shorter distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) times, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. “The number of metastatic sites decreased with increasing age at melanoma diagnosis” [P < […]
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Source: Science Daily, June 2019 Our hair, skin and eyes are colored by a pigment called melanin, which is produced by pigment cells called melanocytes. Scientists have used stem cell technology to successfully create melanocyte precursor cells. These cells can be used in research on melanoma and other pigment cell-related illnesses. The findings were published […]
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