It’s a good idea to keep an eye on your moles, to see if any of them are changing, which can be a sign of skin cancer, experts agree. But a new study finds that the sometimes-deadly skin cancer melanoma usually arises in normal skin, where there is no dark spot or sign of cancer until the melanoma suddenly shows up.
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Novel Data On PV-10 For Melanoma Treatment Presented At ASCO
New findings on PV-10, an investigational intra-lesional therapy for melanoma, were presented during the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Meeting on May 31, 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The presentation entitled “A Changing Topography: The Role of Intralesional Therapy in Melanoma” was presented by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwala, from St. Luke’s Cancer Center in Bethlehem and Temple University School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, USA.
Updated Data on Targeted Therapy Combination Confirm Benefit in Melanoma
The combination of the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib and the investigational MEK inhibitor cobimetinib continues to provide clinical benefit for untreated patients with BRAF-mutated metastatic melanoma, according to updated results of the phase III coBRIM trial (abstract 9006) presented at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held May 29 to June 2, in Chicago.
Combination of cobimetinib and vemurafenib can halt progression of metastatic melanoma for one year
Cobimetinib and Zelboraf® (vemurafenib) target MEK and BRAF cell signals respectively to prevent disease progression in most aggressive form of skin cancer