RECEIVING a diagnosis of a stage two melanoma changed Regan Fletcher’s life.
The 23-year-old celebrated being five years cancer free in January and continues to share her inspiring story.
Patient Stories
FDA Approves New Melanoma Drug that Turns On the Immune System to Fight Deadly Cancers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new immunotherapy drug to treat advanced melanoma, signaling a paradigm shift in the way the deadly skin cancer is treated.
Melanoma treatment triples life expectancy
Melanoma has gone from being Australia’s national shame to the poster child of cancer treatment in less than half a decade, as new ways of attacking cancer have been developed.
Drugs aim to replicate miraculous ‘spontaneous remission’ in cancer patients
DOCTORS had never seen a patient so riddled with cancer dissolve their tumours, without treatment.
Victorian Suzanne Reynolds, who had melanoma in her brain, sinus, bone and gallbladder, went into an incredibly rare ‘spontaneous remission’ where her own immune system fired up and killed the cancer.