Doctors performed a biopsy and diagnosed Lauterbach with stage 3 melanoma. The doctors believe she may have had a melanoma on her skin at some point, and that "a cell or two escaped" and began ...

According to Northwestern Medicine, doctors later diagnosed MaKenna with stage 3 melanoma. “The tumor was sitting on top of MaKenna’s heart and extended into the right lung,” said Dr. Kalvin ...

Moderna’s move into personalised cancer therapy continues to proceed at a rapid pace, with Merck & Co-partnered melanoma vaccine ... patients with high-risk stage 3 or 4 melanoma who were ...

This is to help guide the needle to the abnormal area. If your doctor finds cancer cells in the lymph nodes near the melanoma, the stage changes to stage 3. Surgery is the main treatment for stage 2 ...

The doctors later diagnosed Lauterbach with stage 3 melanoma, a type of skin cancer. She will continue immunotherapy treatments for one year.

Five-year survival rates improved greatly because of immunotherapy and other advances, according to the American Cancer ...

The combination reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 49% and the risk of distant metastasis or death by 62% when compared with treatment with Keytruda alone in patients with stage 3 or 4 ...

Researchers concluded that dabrafenib and trametinib appeared active in the second-line adjuvant setting, “although more follow up is required to confirm.” ...

Tumor upstaging in individuals with invasive melanoma is associated with worse overall and melanoma-specific mortality rates.