…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 will…
…glands The most common type of eye cancer is called ocular melanoma. What is ocular melanoma? Ocular melanoma, also known as uveal or choroidal melanoma, is a rare disease, but…
…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…
…unknown because mucosal melanoma is extremely rare. What are the signs and symptoms of mucosal melanoma? Unlike other melanomas, mucosal melanomas are hard to diagnose because they are hidden inside…
…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 or artificial sunlight…
…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 –…
…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….
…the Melanoma Treatment Center at Dana-Farber reported that about 20 percent of metastatic melanoma patients treated in research studies with ipilimumab were living as long as 10 years – a…
…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…
…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 —…
…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…
…has been especially difficult because of cutaneous melanoma’s high mutation rate — the profusion of misspelled, severed, out-of-place, missing-in-action, or overabundant genes found in melanoma skin tumors. This roar of…
…us understand how the disease develops and how to target it.” [Learn more: Melanoma: what it is, how to spot it, and treatment options.] Making melanoma To make their melanoma…
…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…
…had tremendous benefit from this treatment, which has been game-changing for melanoma patients with brain metastases,” says Patrick Ott, MD, PhD, clinical director of the Center for Melanoma Oncology at…
…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…
…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…