Health Professionals

Collecting images of suspicious-looking skin growths and sending them off-site for specialists to analyze is as accurate in identifying skin cancers as having a dermatologist examine them in person, a new study shows.

Presurgical treatment with the novel drug vidutolimod and the PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab may improve outcomes in patients with stage III cutaneous melanoma, according to a recent study published by Davar et al in Cancer Cell.

Three projects – including the Oxford-led MyMelanoma study – have been selected to join an NHS initiative, which aims to sign up tens of thousands of volunteers over the next two years to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients.

A significant gap in research on psychosocial wellbeing among patients newly diagnosed with melanoma in situ (MIS) exists, according to the results of a systematic review published in Melanoma Research.