Source: The Dermatologist, February 2019 States with a higher incidence of melanoma and higher density of dermatologists had better survival rates, according to the findings of a recent study. Conversely, states with lower melanoma incidence had higher mortality rates.1 “This study is a bird’s eye view of melanoma survival in United States,” said Zachary Hopkins, […]
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Source: MYCG, February 2019 WE’RE being warned to be wary of just how much time we spend in the sun this Australia Day long weekend. Queensland Health has partnered with Surf Life Saving Queensland to remind us just how dangerous it is. It’s estimated that 2.1 million adults and 394,000 children were sunburnt in the […]
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Source: Stuff, February 2019 When 66-year-old Mike Bourke gets dragged to the beach he scans the sand for red bodies. He’s part of a generational club and wonders who here will be the next member. Will it be the child building a sandcastle without a hat, or the woman laid out on the red mat, oiled up […]
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Source: OnClive, February 2019 Frederic Triebel, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer and chief medical director, Immutep Ltd, discusses the rationale for a novel immunotherapy combination in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. An ongoing study is looking at combining PD-1 inhibition, specifically pembrolizumab (Keytruda), with antigen-presenting cells in an attempt to block 2 checkpoints concurrently. […]
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