Melanoma
News
T-VEC plus ipilimumab safe, effective in advanced melanoma
News
Checkpoint-blocking antibodies appear safe, beneficial in elderly melanoma patients
Key clinical point: PD-1 inhibitors and combination ipilimumab/nivolumab prolonged survival vs.
Conference Coverage
SEER data underscore mortality associated with thin melanomas
Thin melanomas account for most melanoma deaths, even though T4 lesions have the worst prognosis, according to an analysis of melanoma data from...
Blog
Red Alert: Can Topical Skin Care Products Promote Melanoma Metastasis?
Le Gal et al (Sci Transl Med. 2015;7:308re8) discovered that antioxidant administration in mice not only increased lymph node metastases...
Practical Pearls
Tips and Tools for Melanoma Diagnosis
Because the earliest form of melanoma is curable, prompt detection is of utmost importance. Therefore, tools to detect melanoma and melanoma in...
Blog
Optical Imaging to Detect Lentigo Maligna
In an article published online on January 26 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, my colleagues and I (Menge et al)...
Commentary
A Pragmatic Approach to Melanoma Screening in Collaboration With Primary Care Providers
There is abundant anecdotal evidence of the value of skin cancer screening; however, population-based screening performed exclusively by...
Clinical Review
Novel Melanoma Therapies and Their Side Effects
In the last few years, melanoma treatment has been revolutionized by the development of immune checkpoint–blocking antibodies or immune checkpoint...
Original Research
Could a Specific Dietary Intake Be a Risk Factor for Cutaneous Melanoma?
The incidence of cutaneous melanoma (CM) has increased in the last decade. Some risk factors are well known, but there are other possible risk...
News
Anxiety before Mohs surgery can be easily managed
Conference Coverage
Gene expression test predicts melanoma metastasis
ORLANDO – A commercially available melanoma gene expression test had a negative predictive value of 98% for metastasis, and correctly identified...