Although melanoma primarily affects fair-skinned people, people with darker skin are also at risk but often go undiagnosed ...

“It had started to grow and become oddly shaped, and the doctor removed it, sent it away, and it came back as just a really light or early form of stage one skin cancer, melanoma.” Schneider ...

offers the best chances of curing advanced melanoma. Melanoma can develop on any part of the body but is more likely to affect the chest, back, legs, neck, and face. This can vary depending on a ...

But once the disease has spread beyond the skin to other organs, it becomes more difficult ... is often the first line of treatment for advanced melanoma patients. But, Holmen says, this treatment ...

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S., with one in five Americans expected to be affected in their ...

Roche plans to begin late-stage studies testing its immunotherapy Tecentriq in combinations for advanced skin cancer. Tecentriq (atezolizumab) is already marketed in lung and bladder cancer ...

A study finds that 3D total-body photography increases excisions in high-risk patients but fails to improve melanoma ...

Meredith McKean, MD, MPH, discusses the background and goals from the recent long-term follow-up of a phase 1 study evaluating the combination of fianlimab and cemiplimab in advanced melanoma.

But once the disease has spread beyond the skin to other organs, it becomes more difficult to treat—and more fatal. Immunotherapy, using a patient's own immune system to attack cancer cells, is often ...