Skin Cancer News
May 21, 2024
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May 13, 2024 An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus -- a virus that ...
May 10, 2024 Melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer that accounts for 75% of all skin-cancer-related deaths, is often detected later in people with darker skin complexions -- and the consequences can be devastating, a new study ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Researchers successfully tested a simple intervention that could unlock greater anti-tumor power in therapies that use T cells -- an approach known as 'cell-based therapy,' which uses specially designed T cells to fight cancer. The team has proven ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Researchers have been working to better understand what drives melanoma brain metastasis. They now report on the identification of a cell signaling pathway that regulates the metastatic spread of ...
Latest Headlines
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May 7, 2024 Recent reproductive research has opened the door for new treatments for solid cancer tumors, including breast cancer, lung cancer and ...
May 2, 2024 A new study has revealed an association between favorable survival outcomes for melanoma patients and the presence of higher populations of ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A mobile app that uses artificial intelligence, AI, to analyze images of suspected skin lesions can diagnose melanoma with very high precision, according to a new ...
Nov. 28, 2023 Researchers have found certain immune cells can still fight cancer even when the cancer cells lack an important protein that the immune system relies on to help track down cancer ...
Oct. 27, 2023 Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates: this, researchers say, is the sunscreen ...
Sep. 5, 2023 Researchers have revealed that the expression of a specific isoform of GREB1 Is4 is induced in malignant melanoma cells by the melanocyte-specific transcription factor, MITF. They revealed that GREB1 ...
Aug. 31, 2023 A new study examines why people living in Atlantic regions are more at-risk for developing melanoma than other Canadians, providing lessons on skin ...
Aug. 10, 2023 The administration of ranolazine, a drug currently used to treat heart conditions, improves the efficacy of current therapies for melanoma, in mouse ...
July 27, 2023 Investigators have designed an innovative RNA-based strategy to activate dendritic cells--which play a key role in immune response -- that eradicated tumors and prevented their recurrence in mouse ...
July 26, 2023 Although rare, mucosal melanoma in humans has a low survival rate. It has been difficult to investigate due to a lack of similar cancers in animals for study. Researchers explored a protein common to ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 16, 2024 New research explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient's T cells outside the body before ...
July 5, 2023 New research has helped explain how melanoma evades the immune system and may guide the discovery of future therapies for the ...
July 5, 2023 A new vaccine boosts the response of engineered CAR-T cells and helps the immune system generate T cells that target other tumor antigens. The researchers found this approach made it more likely that ...
June 26, 2023 Scientists have identified potential new biomarkers that could indicate how someone diagnosed with metastatic melanoma will respond to immunotherapy ...
June 23, 2023 B cells are thought to play a critical role in innate and adaptive immunity, but their exact role in anti-tumor immunity remains unknown. Researchers with expertise in immunology collaborated with ...
May 31, 2023 Overall survival for patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain is only four to six months. Immunotherapies, which harness the power of the immune system to attack cancer cells, have ...
Mar. 30, 2023 White blood cells called neutrophils have an unappreciated role in eradicating solid tumors, according to a surprise ...
Mar. 28, 2023 Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are key factors in the tumor microenvironment, which have been implicated in cancer cell progression. It has also been reported that vesicles called exosomes ...
Feb. 16, 2023 Cancer immunotherapy involves using activated T cells to destroy tumors, but it doesn't work for all patients. Researchers have discovered that a kind of dendritic cell is crucial for ...
Jan. 23, 2023 Researchers have identified a relatively natural way to increase the numbers and antitumor activities of TILs. A team demonstrates how L-fucose, a nontoxic dietary plant sugar that is enriched in red ...
Jan. 9, 2023 New research has identified a protein that makes melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, more aggressive by giving cancer cells the ability to change the shape of their nucleus -- a ...
Jan. 9, 2023 Fewer cases of melanoma were observed among regular users of vitamin D supplements than among non-users, a new study finds. People taking vitamin D supplements regularly also had a considerably lower ...
Dec. 21, 2022 Researchers have used artificial DNA to target and kill cancer cells in a completely new way. The method was effective in lab tests against human cervical cancer- and breast cancer-derived cells, and ...
Dec. 16, 2022 A new study examined the combination of the common immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), a chemotherapy drug that targets myeloid-derived suppressor cells. ...
Dec. 7, 2022 A patient's own immune cells, multiplied into an army of billions of immune cells in a lab, can be used as a living medicine against metastatic melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, as ...
Nov. 28, 2022 Researchers have identified a new method for scheduling radiation therapy that could be as much as 22 percent more effective at killing cancer cells than current standard radiation treatment ...
Oct. 31, 2022 Researchers have developed and validated a machine learning--based method to predict which patients with early-stage melanoma are most likely to experience a cancer ...
Oct. 31, 2022 A new way of reprogramming our immune cells to shrink or kill off cancer cells has been shown to work in the otherwise hard to treat and devastating skin cancer, melanoma. The discovery demonstrates ...
Sep. 28, 2022 A clinical trial showed a remarkable 20 percent advantage in the two-year overall survival rate for people with advanced melanoma who first received immunotherapy (72 percent survival rate) versus ...
Sep. 22, 2022 The advent of small-molecule targeted therapies, a decade ago, revolutionized the treatment of metastatic melanoma, provided that the tumors carry the mutations to respond to these treatments. ...
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- Researchers Identify Protein That Helps Skin Cancer Spread Throughout the Body
- Fewer Cases of Melanoma Among People Taking Vitamin D Supplements
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- Artificial Intelligence Approach May Help Identify Melanoma Survivors Who Face a High Risk of Cancer Recurrence
- Reprogramming of Immune Cells Shown to Fight Off Melanoma
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- Tumors Form Temporary Structures to Avoid Immunotherapy Treatments
- Researchers Decipher the Mechanism That Enables Skin Cancer to Metastasize to the Brain -- And Inhibited Its Spread by 80 Percent
Monday, September 19, 2022
- Scientists Identify Key Biomarkers That Reliably Predict Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Melanoma
- Melanoma Treatment: Potential Target Bypasses Therapeutic Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockers
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- Researchers Discover DNA Copy Number Alterations Lead to Changes in RNA Circuits That Impact Melanoma Metastasis
- Take the Burn out of Sunscreen Testing: Experts
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- Degrading a Key Cancer Cell-Surface Protein to Invigorate Immune Attack on Tumors
- Discovery Could Lead to Better Cancer Immunotherapy
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- Healthy Gut Microbiome Improves Success of Cancer Treatment
- For Cancer Patients on Immunotherapy, Harmful Gut Bacteria Might Matter More Than Helpful Ones