March 31, 2026
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...
The news is not a surprise. We have been waiting for it for days. Maybe years. I was sitting in my office this morning when the phone rang. On the l...
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Most melanoma patients never hear about the most cutting edge treatments available to them. That’s because some of the most innovative a...
The MRF is committed to funding research for finding new treatments that will make a meaningful impact on survival for melanoma patients and understanding ways to improve p...
There’s been much buzz about the new Showtime series, “The Big C” and the portrayal of cancer on the show. But what do melanoma patients think about...
Amy Harmon, a reporter for The New York Times spoke with the Melanoma Research Foundation’s executive director, Tim Turnham about the promising results and increased ...
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