Skin cancer prevention: What is melanoma?Fred Kemp
Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer, but there's a promising new vaccine that may offer hope.
Researchers are looking intowhat may be causing a rare eye cancerto strike groups of patients in two states. Ocular melanoma is an extremely rare form of cancer -- usually found in just six of every one million people. But as "CBS This Morning" reported Monday, it has been identified i...
American Joint Committee on Cancer stage IVserum markertumour markerlactate dehydrogenase (LDH)C-reactive protein (CRP)Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in serum has recently been introduced into the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for cutaneous melanoma because of its prognostic ...
Melanoma (黑素瘤), the deadliest kind of skin cancer, is now the most common cancer in【51】British women, the country's leading cancer organization said Wednesday. Skin cancer has【52】cervical (子宫颈的) cancer as the top cancer striking women in their 20s, according to the latest data...
How curable is melanoma skin cancer?Melanoma:A melanoma is a type of cancer that arises in the skin, specifically the cells that are responsible for pigmentation. It is one of the more common types of skin cancer and is strongly related to sun exposure....
A patient is found to have a melanoma (cancer arising in pigment cells) originating in the skin of the left forearm。 After removal of the tumor from the forearm, all axillary lymph nodes lateral to the medial edge of the pectoralis minor muscle are removed。 Which axillary nodes would not...
The argument that AJCC 8th Edition (American Joint Commission on Cancer) staging will have ‘considerable negative consequences’ in selection of adjuvant therapy is a ‘glass-half-empty’ interpretation of remarkable progress in the adjuvant therapy of melanoma since 1995. Relapse-f...
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has increased rapidly in the United States in recent years, a new study reveals. Some experts have argued that the rising rates are merely a result of expanded screening, which catches small tumors that otherw
How is ocular melanoma treated? After the diagnosis of ocular melanoma, the doctor will try to figure the extent of cancer that has spread in the eye and to other regions in the body. This is known as cancer staging. Treatment will depend upon the stage of cancer. ...