IV melanoma is disease that has metastasized to other parts of the body, including the brain, lungs, or liver. Melanoma cells. Treatment options for melanoma Treatments for a melanoma diagnosis…
precision medicine and immunotherapy to treat childhood and adolescent melanoma. Learn more about melanoma clinical trials at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s. Children and adolescents with melanoma typically fare well with treatment; the…
“nonmelanoma” and rarely spread to other parts of the body. What do early signs of melanoma and other types of skin cancer look like? Melanoma typically begins as a mole…
developing this preventable, but dangerous, disease,” says Stephen Hodi, MD, leader of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber. What are the risk factors for melanoma? People who are exposed to natural…
and prevention? Learn more: What’s the Link Between Diet and Melanoma? Can Melanoma Affect Any Skin Type? What Are the Most Common Sites for Melanoma? [Infographic] Having many moles –…
in melanoma cells. Alexander Eggermont, a melanoma expert from the Netherlands, told a meeting in Boston recently, “Within the next five years, 50 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma may…
early detection of melanoma. The Melanoma Education Foundation offers an illustrated guide to recognizing warning signs of melanoma; and DF/BWCC’s Jennifer Lin, MD, talks about myths and truths about melanoma….
straight on five of the most common myths about melanoma. Myth 1: A diagnosis of melanoma means that I have months to live. There are four stages of melanoma —…
…But diet and melanoma may also be linked. Here is some information on the emerging research around obesity, antioxidant intake, vitamin D and other potential nutrition-related links to melanoma. Obesity…
I proteins,” says Rodig. The result was the melanoma was highly resistant to ipilimumab treatment and the cancer continued to grow. These findings may explain why most melanoma patients don’t…
…the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma. Hodi and his colleagues have worked to better understand which patients with melanoma are likely to be helped by ipilimumab, and to extend…
of developing melanoma than those with light skin. However, it should be kept in mind that individuals with any skin type can develop melanoma. Melanoma often first appears as a…
challenging cancers like melanoma and lung cancer. “We are seeing miraculously rising survival rates,” says Elizabeth Buchbinder, MD, Schwab’s primary oncologist at Dana-Farber. “Before checkpoint inhibitors, melanoma was unfortunately a…
…and the paper’s first author. Clues in Crestin Kaufman and colleagues tracked the development of melanoma over time, using the Zon lab’s preferred laboratory model: zebrafish. All the fish had…
options for patients,” says Elizabeth Buchbinder, MD, a physician with Dana-Farber’s Melanoma Treatment Center. “The landscape for metastatic melanoma has been changing dramatically in a setting where there were previously…
prior research studies involving more than 6,000 melanoma cases, and concluded that consuming an alcoholic drink or more a day increases melanoma risk by 20 percent. Patients who routinely drank…
Former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement earlier this week that he is free of the melanoma that had spread to his liver and brain may be the highest-profile example yet of…
…facing the greatest challenge of her life: stage IV melanoma. A wife and mother of two pre-teen daughters, Mancusco, 41, says she appreciates the intricacies behind the advances in immunotherapy…
more information on comparing cancer data among states. Learn about risk factors for melanoma . For more information on treatment for melanoma, visit the Center for Melanoma Oncology at Dana-Farber….
…meetings of the year. Several Dana-Farber investigators presented encouraging results of immunotherapy for melanoma, lung cancer, and breast cancer. F. Stephen Hodi, MD, and Leena Gandhi, MD, gave reports on…
