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Society for Melanoma Research Award – Stefani Spranger, PhD
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Society for Melanoma Research Award – Stefani Spranger, PhD
Established Investigator Award – Andrew Aplin, PhD
Pilot Proposal – Keiran Smalley, PhD
Career Development Award – Rebecca Hartman, MD, MPH
A major obstacle to even the best melanoma therapies is that in the majority of cases, the tumor never completely goes away. Even if a little bit remains, called the minima...
Melanomas arise from pigmented cells called melanocytes, typically in the skin. Melanomas can spread to distal parts of the body, through a process called metastasis. Metas...
Melanoma is the third most common malignancy to metastasize to the brain. It is estimated that at least 50% of patients with stage IV melanoma will develop brain metastases...
Over the past decade, harnessing the power of a patient’s own immune system for the treatment of cancer has been a major medical breakthrough. By using drugs to block inh...
The majority of cancer patients do not yet benefit from immunotherapy, including from immune checkpoint therapies that invigorate the patients’ own immune systems to figh...
Melanoma is one of the fastest growing malignancies and accounts for 5.5% of all new cancer cases in the United States. Treatment options and prognosis of melanoma patients...
Patients with lymph-node positive melanoma have a high risk of recurrence despite curative surgery. While adjuvant therapy given after surgery improves RFS and OS, ~25% of ...
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