Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is often driven by mutations in the BRAF gene, which fuels uncontrolled tumor growth. While BRAF inhibitors (such as vemurafenib) initially halt tumor ...

You’ll just cause a wound. If you have a new growth or spot on your skin that doesn’t go away in 5 days, see your doctor. But nodular melanomas are different. They don’t fit those guidelines.

Holmen and her team first examined what causes melanoma cells to spread to the brain and identified focal adhesion kinase (FAK) as a potential target for new therapies. FAK is an enzyme that regulates ...

The first patient has been dosed with [212Pb]VMT01 in a phase 1/2a trial evaluating the safety of the agent in patients with ...

Researchers are testing a new combination drug therapy that could both treat and prevent melanoma metastasis, or spreading ...

Checking our skin and monitoring moles is vital, as Katherine Ryan recently highlighted when she revealed her second melanoma ...

Melanomas diagnosed in men are also more likely to have tissue invasion and rapid growth, they added. Yet, the investigators said that even after adjusting for body site and tumor thickness ...

Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is often driven by mutations in the BRAF gene, which fuels uncontrolled tumor growth. While BRAF inhibitors (such as vemurafenib) initially halt tumor ...

Holmen and her team first examined what causes melanoma cells to spread to the brain and identified focal adhesion kinase (FAK) as a potential target for new therapies. FAK is an enzyme that regulates ...