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.
Patient Stories
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.
Tiger star Jack Riewoldt tells of his brush with skin cancer
TIGERS star Jack Riewoldt has revealed a battle with skin cancer that may have brought him within fractions of a millimetre of death.
The melanoma on his back was removed, but the full forward must return for tests every six months to ensure that the cancer has not returned.