The use of tanning devices is a significant contributor to illness and premature mortality in the U.S., according to authors of a recently published study. They conclude that it also represents a major economic burden in terms of the costs of medical care and lost productivity.
This study demonstrates that the rural population is not homogenous and that efforts to promote skin cancer awareness and detection interventions are likely to be more effective if they address the barriers that are particularly dominant within certain demographics of this at-risk group.
Sensor-embedded phones are an emerging facilitator for participant-driven research studies to better understand and prevent melanoma, according to study authors.
Pregnancy-associated melanomas are not associated with a poorer prognosis, according to authors of a review of the better controlled and preponderant studies on pregnancy and melanoma.
This review summarises recent findings on non-melanoma skin cancer as an occupational disease, melanocytic naevi in children as a risk factor for melanoma and enhancing skin cancer prevention through improvement of sunscreen use adherence.
ECT is a “highly effective local treatment for melanoma metastases in the skin, with no severe adverse effect,” according to authors of this study.
Patients more often detect the recurrence of early stage melanoma by self-checks than physicians do by routine imaging tests, research shows. The study, “Patient Symptoms Are the Most Frequent Indicators of Recurrence in Patients with American Joint Committee on Cancer Stage II Melanoma,” was published on the website of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Combining radiotherapy with a PD-1 blocking antibody holds promise for increasing response rates and even inducing long-term survival in patients with metastatic melanoma, according to researchers undertaking a phase II trial outlined in this article.
The addition of dermoscopic images significantly improves the results of an internet-based skin cancer screening system, compared with screening systems based on clinical images alone, according to results of a recent randomised clinical trial.
Combined use of cancer stem cells (CSCs) targeted and traditional therapies offer a promising therapeutic strategy for the management of metastatic melanoma, according to authors of a study published in Molecular Cancer.