PHARMAC is seeking feedback by 25 May 2016 on a proposal to fund nivolumab (Opdivo) for patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. The MelNet Executive Committee feedback to PHARMAC can be found here.
This report provides a useful snapshot in time of New Zealand researchers and the research they are conducting into the control or understanding of melanoma.
A University of Otago study that involved unobtrusively observing the sun-protective practices of students and staff at the sports days of 10 Dunedin secondary schools last summer has found them sorely lacking.
50 per cent of secondary schools with a sun protection policy scored significantly better than other schools, according to study carried out by Cancer Society Social and Behavioural Research Unit staff.
A new study has found New Zealand has overtaken Australia as having the highest per capita rates of invasive melanoma in the world.
The public will support increased regulation of indoor tanning due to public awareness of its link to skin cancer, according to authors of this study.
“With advancements of improving molecular assays, liquid biopsy analysis as a powerful, routine clinical assay for melanoma patients, is highly promising prospective”, according to a recent study.
A thorough risk-benefit evaluation should always be done before UV treatment, according to authors of a study in a Mediterranean population. The authors advise clinicians to carefully monitor patients for skin cancer during and after treatment discontinuation.
Tanning salons in the US actively use social media as a strategy for maintaining relationships with customers and offer pricing deals that promote loyalty and high-frequency tanning, according to authors of a recent study.
“Physicians and patients should not rely on the total nevus count as a sole reason to perform skin examinations or to determine a patient’s at-risk status”, according to authors of a recent study. They also conclude “younger patients should be educated on the increased risk of thicker melanomas that is associated with having more atypical nevi”.