The New York Times & Cancer Survival
January 16, 2014The MRF’s Executive Director shares his thoughts on the recent controversy involving a New York Times’ editor and his criticism of breast cancer patient Lisa Adams. I am old enough to remember when the word “cancer” was rarely spoken, and t …
WUSA-TV Interview Regarding FDA Approval of First Combo Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
January 13, 2014On January 9, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever combination therapy for the treatment of advanced melanoma. WUSA9 (Washington, D.C.'s CBS affiliate) interviewed the MRF's Executive Director Tim Turnham and Sta …
FDA Approves First Combination Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
January 8, 2014Today the FDA issued the first-ever approval of a drug combination for the treatment of melanoma. Statement from Tim Turnham, Executive Director, Melanoma Research Foundation For years, researchers have believed that the most effective app …
Guest Post: A Promise to My Daughter
January 6, 2014Our Education Program Manager Shelby Moneer writes, “I’d always heard that ‘everything changes when you have a baby.’ While I expected that to be true, I never thought I would be impacted in so many ways by the presence of a little, blue-eyed, chubby-c …
NYC Department of Health Votes to Regulate Tanning Beds
December 11, 2013Today the NYC Board of Health approved new rules regulating indoor tanning facilities. Statement from Tim Turnham, Executive Director, Melanoma Research Foundation, Regarding NYC Department of Health Vote to Regulate Tanning Beds Today, the New …
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