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Dermtech Offers A Simple Way to Detect Melanoma
The skin is the largest organ of the body, and therefore not surprisingly, skin cancer is the most common of all cancers accounting for nearly half of all cancers in the United States. Skin cancers can be cured easily if they are found early on. The problem is that they cannot be diagnosed visually as the below example shows….
Digital surveillance, photography aided early melanoma diagnosis
Surveillance with total body photography and sequential digital dermoscopy imaging helped improve early detection of primary melanomas, according to study results.
Researchers reveal importance of highly specialised immune cells in killing melanoma cells
Melbourne researchers have revealed the critical importance of highly specialised immune cells, called natural killer cells, in killing melanoma cells that have spread to the lungs.
These natural killer cells could be harnessed to hunt down and kill cancers that have spread in the body.