Online skin cancer prevention campaigns should focus on the search terms sunburn and screen, due to a declining interest between 2004 and 2016 in the terms skin cancer and melanoma, according to this recent study of Google Trends in English speaking countries.
Mobile phones provide an under-utilised opportunity to modify sun protection behaviour through targeted sun protection notifications, according to this recent Australian study.
Although immunotherapy increases overall survival, metastatic melanoma patients undergoing immunotherapy remain uncertain about their disease trajectory, according to this recent study.
Sunbed use in Denmark reduced significantly during 2007–2015 as a result of the Danish Sun Safety Campaign, according to this recent evaluation. Consequently, significantly fewer skin cancer cases are anticipated during 2007–2040.
Patient age is an important factor in estimating sentinel lymph node risk in patients with intermediate thickness melanoma and may help identify patients without ulceration that may be safely spared a sentinel lymph node biopsy, according to this recent retrospective study.
A predictor of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy response in melanoma has been developed with an overall accuracy of 0.83, according to this recent study.
A large-scale bio-bank at the European Cancer Moonshot Lund Center is collecting and storing tissue and blood samples from melanoma patients has been established in order to build an understanding of melanoma disease presentation and inform proteogenomic and mass spectrometry imaging studies.
Nodular and thick melanomas may be being missed by doctors in New Zealand who are using the traditional 'ABCDE' method of diagnosing melanoma, according to this recent University of Otago study. The authors suggest public education for earlier diagnosis in New Zealand needs to be expanded to include the presenting features of nodular and thick melanomas and to strongly encourage seeking early physician advice.
Regular sunscreen use in childhood significantly reduces the risk of cutaneous melanoma among young adults, according to this recent Australian study.
Pigmented lesion assay, a noninvasive gene expression test, reduces cost and may improve the care of patients with primary pigmented skin lesions suggestive of melanoma when compared with visual assessment followed by biopsy and histopathologic assessment, according to this recent study.