The RISE R-5780-01 trial will evaluate the safety and tolerability of R-5780 in patients with melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, or squamous cell carcinoma.
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Diabetes Drug Metformin May Have Another Use: Protecting Against Skin Cancer
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The new immunotherapies changing the war on malignant melanoma
While melanoma is relatively rare, accounting for only 1% of all skin cancer cases, rates of melanoma have been rising rapidly over the past few decades. It is responsible for the majority of skin cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.
Evaxion concludes subject dosing in Phase II trial of melanoma vaccine
Evaxion Biotech has completed subject dosing in the Phase II trial of its personalised peptide-based cancer vaccine, EVX-01, for the treatment of advanced melanoma, also referred to as skin cancer.