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Disrupting cancer pathway could enhance new immunotherapies
Understanding how to overrule a signalling pathway that can cause treatments to fail in metastatic…
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How artificial tanning can lead to melanoma
Young women may be up on the latest fashions and trends as they prepare for…
How does Keytruda treat melanoma and why is it so costly? by Prof Ian Olver
Ian Olver, University of South Australia Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) is the latest drug to be registered…
Pensioners seven times more likely to get deadly skin cancer than 40 years ago
People over 65 are around seven times more likely to develop malignant melanoma compared to 40 years…
Personalised Cancer Vaccines Pass Early Test
By Stephen Luntz – IFL Science. Cancer vaccines tailored-made to a patient’s individual tumour have…
Immunotherapy drugs could herald new era in cancer treatment
By Justin Bryans, Queen Mary University of London. Pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy treatment initially approved for advanced…
New immunotherapy drug ‘fast-tracked’ for UK melanoma patients
A new immunotherapy drug, pembrolizumab, has become the first treatment ‘fast-tracked’ for NHS patients with…
Radiation plus immunotherapy combo revs up immune system to better attack melanoma
Treating metastatic melanoma with a triple threat—including radiation therapy and two immunotherapies that target the CTLA4…
Sunlight continues to damage skin in the dark
Much of the damage that ultraviolet radiation (UV) does to skin occurs hours after sun…
Lack of RNA ‘editing’ leads to melanoma growth and metastasis
The importance of RNA editing in melanoma has been demonstrated by scientists at The University…