Dual patient-caregiver account sheds light on mucosal melanoma, immunotherapy-induced encephalitis, and gaps in ...

Clinical utility may be greatest with careful patient selection, given frailty-associated toxicity and potential endpoint inflation in indolent tumors, warranting larger validation cohorts and ...

The study explores the neoadjuvant approach: administering the immunotherapy drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab) before a surgeon ever picks up a scalpel. Researchers observed dramatic tumor shrinkage and, ...

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Appropriate use of immune checkpoint inhibitors and immunotherapy differs in adults with unresectable, metastatic cutaneous ...

Pro-inflammatory M1 macrophages involved in immune responses accelerate the progression of melanoma through the extracellular ...

Ipilimumab-nivolumab also linked with better survival but more toxicity in small study ...

Circulating tumor DNA levels a few weeks after immunotherapy initiation could help identify patients with melanoma at greatest risk for recurrence or death.A retrospective analysis showed individuals ...

A review finds melanoma accounts for nearly half of skin cancer malpractice cases, with delayed diagnosis being the leading allegation.

For patients with asthma, receipt of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy for melanoma or renal cell carcinoma is not ...

A meta-analysis of 13 studies showed that patients who underwent sentinel node biopsy had a significantly reduced risk of death from melanoma. In addition, an analysis of nine studies showed that the ...