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September 9, 2016

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Oxygen Can Impair Cancer Immunotherapy in Mice

Aug. 25, 2016 — Researchers have identified a mechanism in mice by which anticancer immune responses are inhibited within the lungs, a common site of metastasis for many ... read more

How Melanoma Spreads to Other Organs in the Body

Aug. 22, 2016 — In a landmark discovery, researchers have unraveled the metastatic mechanism of melanoma, the most aggressive of all skin cancers. Their work may lead to a cure for the deadly ... read more

Increased Eye Cancer Risk Linked to Pigmentation Genes That Dictate Eye Color

Aug. 19, 2016 — New research links specific inherited genetic differences to an increased risk for eye (uveal) melanoma, a rare form of melanoma that arises from ... read more

Face Changing Tech Showing Sun Damage Is Most Effective at Promoting Sun Safe Behavior

Aug. 18, 2016 — Researchers examined the way sun safe messages are conveyed to young women, and found that visual communication using technology to age participant's ... read more

New Approach for Treating Skin Cancer

Aug. 1, 2016 — Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches to silence 'don't eat me' signaling proteins recognized by specialized cells of the immune system, molecular biologists have identified an ... read more

Poor Skin Cancer Survival in Patients With Skin of Color, Study Shows

July 28, 2016 — Because Caucasians have a higher skin cancer risk than the general population, people with skin of color may believe that they don’t need to be concerned about this disease — but new research ... read more

Combining Ipilimumab With Local Treatments Improved Survival for Patients With Melanoma

July 27, 2016 — Among patients with melanoma, those who received both ipilimumab (Yervoy) and local peripheral treatments such as radiotherapy or electrochemotherapy ... read more

Evidence Insufficient to Make Recommendation Regarding Visual Skin Examination by a Clinician

July 26, 2016 — The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of ... read more

Research Opens 'Black Box' of Malignant Melanoma

July 25, 2016 — A new study pinpoints when melanoma cells metastasize in the brain months before they develop into fatal tumors. According to the research, micro-tumor cells hijack astrogliosis, the brain's natural ... read more

Researchers Discover Genetic Causes of Higher Melanoma Risk in Men

July 21, 2016 — A new study has identified one of the genetic causes underlying the higher rate of melanoma in men. The research group focused their study on the differences between men and ... read more

Cutting Off the Blood Supply to Prostate Cancer

3D Printed 'phantom' Tumours to Help Battle Cancer

How Colleges Use Tanning Beds To Attract Students

Toxin-Packed Stem Cells Used To Kill Cancer

Nanotechnology Supports Treatment of Malignant Melanoma

Sep. 6, 2016 — Changes in the genetic make-up of tissue samples can be detected quickly and easily using a new method based on nanotechnology. A new study in first clinical tests with genetic mutations in patients ... read more

Scientists Have Discovered a Specific Molecular Biomarker for Malignant Melanoma

Sep. 6, 2016 — Melanoma is one of the types of cancer that poses the greatest challenge to researchers because it manifests itself in many ways, it contains a large number of mutations and displays high metastatic ... read more

Study Identifies Novel Treatment Resistance Mechanism in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma

Aug. 8, 2016 — A research team has identified an additional mechanism for resistance to targeted treatment for BRAF-mutant melanoma. They report that inactivating mutations in two genes responsible for regulating ... read more

New Target for Treatment of Melanoma Identified

Aug. 4, 2016 — A Brazilian study shows that inhibition of an RNA named RMEL3, which is encoded by a previously uncharacterized gene (also named RMEL3), can reduce the viability of cultured melanoma cells by up to ... read more

Task Force Maybe Too Stringent in Not Yet Recommending Melanoma Screening

July 26, 2016 — Two clinical experts question a USPSTF determination that there isn't enough evidence to recommend that clinicians visual screen for skin cancer, such as ... read more

Many Skin Cancer Patients Still Too Likely to Sunburn

July 19, 2016 — A recent study concludes that a substantial number of people with a history of the most frequent kind of nonmelanoma skin cancers still get sunburned at the same rate as those without previous ... read more

Immunotherapy Benefits Relapsed Stem Cell Transplant Recipients

July 13, 2016 — Using repeated doses of an immunotherapy drug can restore a complete remission for some relapsed stem cell transplant recipients, new research ... read more

Study Unlocks Key Mechanisms That Determine Acquired Resistance to Immunotherapy in Advanced Melanoma

July 13, 2016 — For the first time, researchers have identified mechanisms that determine how advanced melanoma can become resistant to immune checkpoint inhibitors, a discovery that could lead to the development of ... read more

A 'Key' to Metastasis Formation

July 13, 2016 — Researchers have demonstrated that a molecule, called biglycan, plays an intrinsic role in attracting tumor cells toward the inner wall of tumor blood vessels. Cells lining the walls of tumor blood ... read more

Researchers Identify Potential Immunotherapy Drug Combination

July 12, 2016 — A drug combination designed to enhance the immune system's ability to zero in and attack cancer cells has shown a pronounced therapeutic effect against advanced and metastatic cancers in mice, ... read more

Study Finds No Substantial Harm from Primary Care Melanoma Screening

July 8, 2016 — Experts concerned that primary care screening for melanomas could lead to widespread misdiagnoses or overtreatment can take comfort in the results of a new study that found no such ... read more

Where Did It All Go Wrong? Scientists Identify 'Cell of Origin' in Skin Cancers

July 8, 2016 — Scientists have identified for the first time the 'cell of origin' -- in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows -- in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin ... read more

New Immunotherapy Combo Effectively Treats Advanced Brain Cancer in Pre-Clinical Models

July 7, 2016 — A new breakthrough combination treatment has been developed that utilizes a vaccine to activate an immune response against advanced brain ... read more

New Anti-Cancer Strategy Mobilizes Both Innate and Adaptive Immune Response

July 1, 2016 — Scientists have developed a new vaccine that involves injecting cells that have been modified so that they can stimulate both an innate immune response and the more specific adaptive response, which ... read more

Radiation-Guided Nanoparticles Zero in on Metastatic Cancer

June 29, 2016 — Zap a tumor with radiation to trigger expression of a molecule, then attack that molecule with a drug-loaded nanoparticle, say cancer ... read more

Partners of Patients With Melanoma Find New Cancers With Skin Exam Training

June 29, 2016 — Skin-check partners of patients with melanoma effectively performed skin self-examinations and identified new melanomas as part of an effort to increase early detection of the skin cancer that can be ... read more

Engineering the Immune System to Kill Cancer Cells

June 15, 2016 — A new immunotherapy, a treatment that enhances immune system function in order to treat or prevent disease, is under developed as a means to more effectively target and kill cancer ... read more

Taking PDE5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction Unlikely to Increase Risk of Skin Cancer

June 14, 2016 — Three drugs widely prescribed for erectile dysfunction are unlikely to increase risk of malignant melanoma, according to a new ... read more

Natural Killer Cells Have a Memory

June 7, 2016 — Researchers have decoded a new mechanism of how the immune system can specifically attack pigmented cells of the skin. It was previously believed that so-called natural killer cells did not have an ... read more

Early Detection, Smaller Cancer Among Benefits of Skin Cancer Screening at PCP Visits

June 7, 2016 — Skin cancer screenings performed by primary care physicians (PCPs) during routine office visits improve the detection of potentially deadly melanomas and find them in earlier stages, according to new ... read more

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