Melanoma Rates For Young People Are Rising Rapidly
April 3, 2012
Cutaneous melanoma is the most serious and deadly form of skin cancer. Melanoma ranks as the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women. However, among young adults (18 to 39), melanoma is the second most common invasive cancer (breast cancer is number one). While[...]
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New Drugs For Melanoma Patients
June 6, 2011
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. Failure to timely diagnose melanoma is often fatal. More than 68,000 people were diagnosed with melanoma in 2010 and about 8,700 died from melanoma. The standard chemotherapy drug, dacarbazine, which is the only FDA-approved drug for melanoma, is ef[...]
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Cancer Death Rates Falling
May 10, 2011
According to a recent report, cancer death rates began to decline in the early 1990s and have continued to do so. Cancer death rates declined an average of 1.6% a year between 2003 and 2007, and the overall incidence rates of cancer have declined about 1%. However, death rates for cancer among men [...]
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Avoid Misdiagnosis Of Skin Cancer By Preventing It
April 4, 2011
Now that it’s Spring and Summer is just around the corner, we should all be concerned about sun exposure and skin cancer. About 1.3 million people are diagnosed with various forms of skin cancer in the United States every year. One of the mostly deadly forms of skin cancer is melanoma. There [...]
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