Skin Cancer News

April 30, 2025

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New Cell Therapy Shows Promising Results in Advanced Tumor Diseases

Apr. 25, 2025 — In recent years, cell therapies have developed alongside chemotherapy and immunotherapy to become a new pillar in the treatment of patients with blood and lymph gland cancer. In solid tumors, such as skin, lung, or bone and soft tissue cancer ...

Gene-Based Blood Test for Melanoma May Catch Early Signs of Cancer's Return

Apr. 15, 2025 — Monitoring blood levels of DNA fragments shed by dying tumor cells may accurately predict skin cancer recurrence, a new study ...

New Immune Boost Could Expand Access to Cancer Immunotherapy

Apr. 11, 2025 — Researchers have found that tapping into the body's own immune system and activating a type of immune cell known as B cells, could be the key to boosting the effectiveness of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL ...

Discovery Reveals Protein Involved in Parkinson's Disease Also Drives Skin Cancer

Apr. 9, 2025 — A small protein involved in neurodegeneration leading to Parkinson's disease also drives a type of skin cancer known as melanoma, according to new ...

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In Pancreatic Cancer, a Race Against Time

Apr. 2, 2025 — Scientists have found a way to 'intercept' pancreatic cancer. By inhibiting the cancer gene FGFR2, they were able to slow tumor formation. By targeting the FGFR2 and EGFR proteins, they were able to ...

Beating the Clock: Melanoma Starts Evading Treatment Within Hours -- Here's How to Stop It

Mar. 20, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered a stealth survival strategy that melanoma cells use to evade targeted therapy, offering a promising new approach to ...

Targeted Alpha Therapy: Breakthrough in Treating Refractory Skin Cancer

Mar. 12, 2025 — Metastatic melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. In an effort to achieve targeted therapy for metastatic melanoma, researchers recently developed a new radioactive drug that emits ...

Blind to the Burn: Misconceptions About Skin Cancer Risk in the US

Mar. 12, 2025 — Experiencing five or more severe sunburns between the ages of 15 and 20 increases the risk of melanoma by 80% and nonmelanoma skin cancer by 68%. This study is among the few to examine the ...

Scientists Discover New Weapon to Fight Treatment-Resistant Melanoma

Feb. 5, 2025 — Scientists identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant melanoma: inhibiting the gene ...

New Combination Immunotherapy for Melanoma and Breast Cancer

Jan. 23, 2025 — A research team has investigated a new combination therapy against cancer. This therapy employs systemic administration of the tissue hormone interferon-I combined with local application of ...

Scientists Develop Tiny Anticancer Weapon

Jan. 15, 2025 — A new twist on a decades-old anticancer strategy has shown powerful effects against multiple cancer types in a preclinical study. The experimental approach, which uses tiny capsules called small ...

Researchers Shed Light on How to Predict Which Skin Cancer Patients Are Most Likely to Respond to Immunotherapy

Jan. 8, 2025 — An international team of UK and US scientists discovered that the activity of macrophages -- a type of white blood cell that engulf pathogens and ...

Researchers Discover a Genetic Disposition Increasing the Risk of Breast Cancer Metastasis

Dec. 9, 2024 — Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. Researchers have found that the mutations driving it may stem from a commonly inherited ...

Scientists Identify Key Mechanism in Development of Skin Cancer

Nov. 22, 2024 — Researchers have discovered how the interplay between a key protein and an endolysosomal ion channel promotes tumor development in skin ...

New Immunotherapy Strategy for Enhancing Melanoma Treatment

Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers have found a new way to boost cancer immunotherapy by targeting a protein called macrophage receptor with collagenous structure, or MARCO. Their study shows that blocking MARCO in ...

Study Identifies Subtypes of Fibroblasts in Skin Cancer

Nov. 19, 2024 — A study provides insights into the diversity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in white and black skin cancer and describes their different immunomodulatory roles in the tumor environment. The results ...

AI Model That Checks for Skin Cancer Shows Promise

Oct. 17, 2024 — Scientists developed a way of using artificial intelligence to check for skin cancer with the AI tool, which was trained on data from 53,601 skin lesions from 25,105 patients, outperforming existing ...

Estrogens Play a Hidden Role in Cancers, Inhibiting a Key Immune Cell

Sep. 27, 2024 — Estrogens are known to drive tumor growth in breast cancer cells that carry its receptors, but a new study unexpectedly finds that estrogens play a role in fueling the growth of breast cancers ...

Long-Term Metastatic Melanoma Survival Dramatically Improves on Immunotherapy, Study Finds

Sep. 16, 2024 — Long-term data from a landmark international trial show about half of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with a combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors survive cancer-free for 10 years or ...

Experimental mRNA Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential for Advanced Stage Cancer Patients in Phase 1 Trial

Sep. 13, 2024 — Interim data from the Phase I dose escalation part of the mRNA cancer immunotherapy (mRNA-4359), show promise in patients with advanced solid cancers. The investigational mRNA cancer immunotherapy is ...

Sex Matters in How, When, and Where Melanomas Develop, Study Finds

Sep. 12, 2024 — A study analyzing long-term melanoma data reveals important insights into melanoma incidence trends in men and ...

Breaking the Trend: Skin Cancer Incidence in Young Adults Declines

Sep. 9, 2024 — The risk of skin cancer for adults under the age of 50 is now decreasing for the first time in ...

Sep. 6, 2024 — Age-related changes in the fibroblasts, cells that create the skin's structure, contribute to the development of aggressive, treatment-resistant melanoma in males, according to new ...

Combo Immunotherapy Produces Distinct Waves of Cancer-Fighting T Cells With Each Dose

Aug. 29, 2024 — A new tool for monitoring immune health patterns over time reveals how a pair of checkpoint inhibitor therapies works together to recruit new cancer-fighting T cells with every ...

Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy Marks a Milestone in Cancer Treatment

July 18, 2024 — Scientists provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and potential of TIL therapy. They describe its development and highlight its transformative ...

The Mechanism Behind Melanoma Resistance to Treatment

June 27, 2024 — In many cases of malignant melanoma, the effect of targeted treatment is lost over time. A research team has now discovered that a factor secreted by tumor cells is responsible for the resistance. ...

How Targeted Nutrients Can Fight Cancer

June 18, 2024 — An international research team has discovered a new way to effectively treat cancer, by using nutrients to reactivate suppressed metabolic pathways in cancer ...

Transfer RNAs at the Heart of Therapeutic Resistance

June 7, 2024 — Scientists have discovered an interesting new therapeutic target for the treatment of melanoma resistant to targeted therapies. Inhibition of the VARS enzyme could prevent this therapeutic resistance ...

Inherited Genes Play a Larger Role in Melanoma Risk Than Previously Believed

May 23, 2024 — A new study shows that genetics play a larger role in melanoma risk than recognized. Researchers report that up to 15% (1 in 7) of patients who received melanoma diagnoses from Cleveland Clinic ...

Plant Virus Treatment Shows Promise in Fighting Metastatic Cancers in Mice

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 ...

Melanoma in Darker Skin Tones

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 ...

Years After His Death, Late Scientist's Work Could Yield New Cancer Treatments

May 7, 2024 — Recent reproductive research has opened the door for new treatments for solid cancer tumors, including breast cancer, lung cancer and ...

Gene Signatures from Tissue-Resident T Cells as a Predictive Tool for Melanoma Patients

May 2, 2024 — A new study has revealed an association between favorable survival outcomes for melanoma patients and the presence of higher populations of tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM). Data obtained from ...

New Insights Could Unlock Immunotherapy for Rare, Deadly Eye Cancer

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 ...