Amgen today announced findings from a pre-specified retrospective analysis of patients with metastatic melanoma that showed talimogene laherparepvec reduced the size of injected tumors and also non-injected tumors that had metastasized to other parts of the body.
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Cancer drug that saved Ron Walker’s life cleared in the US, but not Australia
THE drug that saved Ron Walker’s life may not be widely available to Australian cancer patients for at least another year, even though it is now available to desperately sick patients in the US.
UV light aids cancer cells that creep along the outside of blood vessels
A new study by UCLA scientists and colleagues adds further proof to earlier findings by Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center that deadly melanoma cells can spread through the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the bloodstream.
Nonsentinel lymph node status identified as prognostic factor for melanoma-specific survival
Nonsentinel lymph node status appears to be an independent predictor of melanoma-specific survival and should be incorporated into the staging system for melanoma, results of a retrospective study suggest.