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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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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