US enlists IMB to seek new ways to battle melanoma
Source: The University Of Queensland Australia, September 2022
Researchers from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have been awarded international funding to combat an expected escalation of skin cancer cases in US troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dr Samantha Stehbens and Dr Mel White will spend three years combining their work in cancer biology and neuroscience after receiving a United States Department of Defense Melanoma Research Program Idea Award.
An increasing problem for returning US troops
“Only 13 per cent of the 3 million US defence staff deployed in Iraq during the Operation Iraqi Freedom missions wore sunscreen, so the rate of melanoma in returned troops is increasing,” Dr Stehbens said.