DermaSensor provides quantitative, point-of-testing identification for skin cancer, including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.
Regulatory
FDA Fast Tracks Naporafenib for Unresectable, Metastatic Melanoma
The Phase III SEACRAFT-2 trial will analyze the clinical efficacy of naporafenib compared with physician’s choice of single-agent dacarbazine, temozolomide, or trametinib among patients with NRAS-mutated metastatic melanoma who received prior treatment with an immunotherapy.
FDA Approves 3 Treatments, Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved treatment for some patients with neuroblastoma, kidney cancer and bladder cancer. Elsewhere, a cancer vaccine made headlines for the treatment of patients with melanoma.
Opdualag licensed for patients with advanced melanoma
This is a cancer medicine used to treat advanced melanoma, a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body. The main risk factor for melanoma is exposure to ultraviolet light, which comes from the sun and is used in sunbeds. Around 17,000 cases of melanoma are diagnosed every year in the UK, although not all of those are advanced melanoma.