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DENVER, CO – The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) will host its 14th Annual Denver Gala on Thursday, September 18 at its new venue, Asterisk Denver. This year’s event...
In their most honest moments, the best and brightest scientific researchers agree that competition is good. When researchers have to apply for limited funds they shar...
WASHINGTON—Unless you are Cindy Crawford, you might give little thought to the moles, freckles and other marks dotting your skin. But, as an estimated 68,000 pe...
I had dinner last night with two melanoma researchers. One is an M.D.; the other has an M.D and a Ph.D. The discussion quickly moved to new studies and treatmen...
Today’s melanoma symposium in Seattle featured a panel of patients telling their stories. Some have been fighting melanoma for years. One was ...
In some ways cancer patients are just people. Some are mean, some are nice. Some are caring, some are indifferent. Having said that, cancer, like most maj...
After two days of board meetings and tons of other activities I was exhausted. But I ran to the airport and jumped on an 8:15 flight last night, arriving in St. Louis...
That is the headline in an article by Dr. John Briffa, a UK physician. Citing a 2008 article in the British Medical Journal, the author claims that melanoma incidence...
I won’t give her name here, but her story is worth telling. She was a young woman when she found an odd mole on her back. Simple surgery, but the path rep...
To say that a patient failed a treatment is to use fairly common jargon in describing a situation in which the patient is no longer benefitting from that treatment. T...
About 2/3 of melanomas are caused by exposure to UV radiation. Often the damage is done in the days of our youth, and only manifested later in life. So if peopl...
The melanoma community has waited a long time for a breakthrough. See what MRF and patients have had to say about the FDA's decision on Yervoy: F.D.A. Approves D...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thirteen years of waiting is now over for melanoma patients. That’s how long it’s been since the last therapy became available to treat t...
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