Women were a younger mean age at melanoma diagnosis when compared with men across all anatomic sites and most Breslow thickness categories.

One of the largest studies of outcomes of treatments for LM reviewed 13,051 cases of melanoma in situ (Zalaudek et al., 2003), of which 95.9% were treated with excision and the remainder were ...

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops from melanocytes, cells responsible for skin pigmentation. While individuals with darker skin, like many African Americans, benefit from higher ...

mRNA specialist BioNTech has chalked up an important win in its cancer pipeline, showing efficacy with its BNT111 vaccine candidate in a phase 2 trial in advanced melanoma. The study is looking at ...

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

Sep. 16, 2024 — Long-term data from a landmark international trial show about half of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with a combination of immune ... Experimental mRNA Cancer Vaccine ...