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Skin Cancer: Nodular MelanomaSkin cancers come in a variety of types including Basal Cell, Squamous Cell and Melanoma. The melanomas are by far the most serious forms of skin cancer.- Nail Health: Can Your Nails Indicate the Presence of Melanoma?Dark stripes or bands seen through the nails of the thumb, forefinger, or great toe can indicate the presence of melanoma. The clinical name for melanoma of the nail bed is called subungual melanoma.
Skin Cancer Prevention: Year Around Protection NeededSkin cancer is the leading type of cancer in the United States. It is also the most preventable type of cancer. You can't control risk factors such as age, skin type, or family history, but you can control your exposure to UVA and UVB rays.
Yervoy As a Treatment for Late-Stage MelanomaThe FDA approved Yervoy as a treatment for late-stage melanoma. Read on to learn more about this drug and how effective is has been for patients.- Vitamin D Reduces Melanoma RiskResearch shows that Vitamin D may play an important role in the reducing the risk for melanoma type skin cancers.
Top Melanoma Treatment Breakthroughs for 20112011 seems to be the year for melanoma treatment breakthroughs.- Digital Dermoscopy for Melanoma Detection: First Person AccountWhat actually happens when you undergo serial digital dermoscopy for melanoma screening?
Melanoma Drug Developments Give Hope to Skin Cancer PatientsMelanoma is an increasingly dangerous form of skin cancer that usually results from sun exposure. Doctors have found two possible drugs that may reduce the fatal effects of late stage melanoma. Read More...
Skin Cancer & Melanoma Risk Soars After Heart TransplantsDeveloping melanoma, and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (another skin cancer) becomes much more likely in people who have undergone heart transplants.
Doctors Recommend Melanoma Screenings for 50 Years Olds and UpMelanoma, a type of skin cancer, becomes more of a risk factor as someone gets older. Studies show that dermatoogists done screens are most effective on patients 50 years of age or older.
Future Melanoma Treatment May Be Special Diet Plus DrugAnother possible avenue to effective melanoma treatment has been discovered.
New Drugs Show Promise in Treating MelanomaA new study shows promise in treating melanoma patients. While this is good news for cancer patients, don't throw away your sunscreen just yet.- Skin Cancer & Melanoma Treatment with Peptides Shows PromisePeptides may be the key to melanoma and other skin cancer treatment, as well as for leukemia, according to the latest discovery.
- Melanoma Follow-up Screening: Why Only Annually?After melanoma treatment, the patient sees his dermatologist every 3-6 months for up to two years.
- Is Melanoma Risk Higher in Blacks with Freckles?Maybe you already know that melanoma risk in blacks, overall, is far lower than in whites or Hispanics, and perhaps you already know that having freckles is one of many increased risk factors for melanoma.
- Treating Melanoma & Other Cancers with Telomerase InhibitorCancer researchers continue to close in on a telomerase inhibitor as a potential universal treatment or even cure.
Melanoma Treatment with Topical Cream Looks PromisingResearchers have had promising results for treating melanoma with a topical compound...
Sun Tanning and Tanning Beds Strong Link to Melanoma (A Form of Skin Cancer)This article discusses Ultraviolet Radiation exposure in Skin Tanning and the impact it has in forming Melanoma. The article also covers risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for Melanoma.
Tanning Beds Increase Risk of MelanomaStudies show that going to a tanning bed will give you more than just a tan.
Breakthrough Melanoma Treatment: Drug Inhibits Cancer GrowthThere's been another melanoma treatment breakthrough, this time with a drug that's already been FDA-approved for an unrelated medical condition.- FDA Approved a Drug that Extends the Lives of Melanoma PatientsFDA approved Ipilimumab for the treatment of advanced melanoma, previous unsuccessfully treatment . According to clinical trial the drug extend the lives of melanoma patients. Treatment available to counteract side affects of the drug.
- New Treatment Approved for Late-Stage MelanomaThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of an immune-modulating treatment that extends survival in patients with metastatic melanoma.
- Melanoma Biopsies: How Accurate Are They? Laser May ReplaceBiopsies for diagnosing melanoma aren't as accurate as you may believe. Biopsies for melanoma are not much more reliable than an 85 percent accuracy rate, according to chemistry professor Warren S. Warren.
- Can a Child Be Too Young to Get Melanoma?The bad news is that melanoma doesn't care how young a child is. "There is no age that is too young to develop melanoma as a child," says Dr. Schlessinger.
- Can Small, Tiny Moles Turn into Melanoma?Do you believe a mole can never turn into melanoma as long as it's small or tiny? If, during your monthly skin exams for cancer, you've decided to skip past your small, tiny little "birth marks" '" you're making a big mistake.
- Can You Pick Off Melanoma, How Much & Will it Spread?The questions should be how much melanoma can you pick off, and will picking at a melanoma make it spread?
- How Much Do Adult Sunburns Raise Melanoma Risk?What about adult sunburns and melanoma risk? You keep reading and hearing about childhood sunburns boosting melanoma risk in adults, but something needs to be said about the effect that sunburns in adulthood has on melanoma risk.
- The Bad Kind of Skin Cancer - MelanomaSkin cancer can't happen to you. Skin cancer is common and should not be a real concern. You don't have time for preventive doctor visits, you work and have a family to tend, but what happens when you are diagnosed with it knowing it could be prevented?
- Diagnosis of Melanoma Without Biopsy: New Imaging DeviceMelanoma may soon be diagnosed without a biopsy; without cutting into the suspicious mole and sending the specimen off to a pathology lab.
- Promising Treatment for Metastatic Melanoma: Gene TherapyMetastatic melanoma (that which has spread or is advanced) has a poor prognosis, but that may change, thanks to a gene therapy technique known as adoptive immunotherapy.
- Program Improves Prognosis of Melanoma in High Risk PeopleFor people at high risk for melanoma, a special program has been shown to improve early detection, and thus, prognosis, of this most deadly of skin cancers.
- Remission of Advanced Melanoma with Stem Cell TherapyA complete remission of melanoma resulted from an experimental stem cell therapy, say researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine.
- Can Melanoma Be Caused by Brief Daily Sun for Vitamin D?You hear that sun exposure can cause melanoma, but then hear you need daily sun to get vitamin D.
- Melanoma's Top Risk Factors: Many Moles, Red Hair, Fair SkinHaving many moles is a leading risk factor for melanoma, an often-fatal skin cancer that kills about 10,000 Americans every year.
- Melanoma of the EyeThis article gives an overview on what melanoma of the eye is.
- How to Keep from Getting MelanomaMelanoma is a very serious type of skin cancer. My article talks about ways to prevent it.
- Skin Cancer, Melanoma Prevention Tips While Out in the SunSkin cancer is the most common form of cancer usually caused by the sun's ultraviolet rays. Here are things or simple tips that you can do that may prevent it from developing.
- New Melanoma Drug PLX4032 Shows Promise as a Treatment for Cancer PatientsIn an early study, PLX4032 seemed to shrink tumors in 81 percent of patients, but the effects may be fleeting.
- Can Too Much Sun Kill You?As skin cancer and melanoma become an unfortunate medical dominance, scientists, doctors, and dermatologists scurry to determine what causes this. In the United states, 8,650 deaths were caused by melanoma in 2009, the most serious version of skin cancer.
- Why Everyone Should Protect Their SkinMany of us that feel we are too young to be negatively affected by UV rays are in the target age of 25-29 years that acquire melanoma.
