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This article is a candidate for the Medicine Collaboration of the Week. Please visit that page to support or comment on the nomination. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Melanocytes predominantly occur in the skin but can be found elsewhere, especially the eye. The vast majority of melanomas originate in the skin. Melanomas are the most lethal form o ...
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- "Hidden" Melanomas (American Academy of Dermatology)
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Melanoma News Headlines
- Melanoma combo treatment not effective
The Earth Times - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:59 EST
- Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Patients At High Risk For Melanoma Benefit When Partner Is Involved In Skin Self-Exams
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Moffitt Named Melanoma Center Of Excellence
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Morphotek Obtains Exclusive License From Micromet For Antibody To Treat Melanoma And Other Cancers
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- The Psychology Of Skin Cancer
ScienceDaily - Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Tumor-reactive T Cells Boosted By Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
ScienceDaily - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- The Psychology Of Skin Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:00 EST
- Study finds one-time screening for melanoma cost-effective
The Earth Times - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:50 EST
- Tumor-Reactive T Cells Boosted By Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:00 EST
- One-time Melanoma Screening Of Older Adults Appears To Be Cost-effective
ScienceDaily - Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:00 EST
- One-time melanoma screening cost-effective
The Earth Times - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:49 EST
- One-Tme Melanoma Screening Of Older Adults Appears To Be Cost-Effective
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:00 EST
- One-time skin cancer screen cost-effective: study
Reuters - Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:23 EST
- Provectus Receives Orphan Drug Designation From FDA For Anti-Cancer Agent PV-10 For The Treatment Of Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Vical Highlights Transition To Phase 3 Trial With Allovectin-7(R) For Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Fast growing melanomas have distinct traits
Reuters - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:28 EST
- Couples training can promote skin cancer exams
Reuters - Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:26 EST
- Vical Initiates Pivotal Phase 3 Trial Of Allovectin-7(R) As First-line Therapy For Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Fast growing melanomas have distinct traits
Reuters - Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:44 EST
- Fast growing melanomas have distinct traits
Reuters - Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:46 EST
- Medarex Announces Enrollment Complete In Ipilimumab (MDX-010) Monotherapy Pivotal Registrational Trial For Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- SeqWright To Perform FDA Standard Sequencing And Analysis For Third Wave Technologies HPV Clinical Trials
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:00 EST
- Infectious Disease Researchers Develop Basis For Experimental Melanoma Treatment
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
- New Genetic Test Predicts Risk Of Metastasis In Patients With Deadly Eye Cancer
ScienceDaily - Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:00 EST
- Melanoma Risk For White Marathon Runners
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:00 EST
- Medarex Announces FDA Fast Track Designations For Ipilimumab For The Treatment Of Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
- Infectious Disease Researchers Develop Basis For Experimental Melanoma Treatment
ScienceDaily - Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:00 EST
- Infectious Disease Researchers Develop Basis for Experimental Melanoma Treatment
National Institutes of Health - Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:47 EST
- Phototherapy For Neonatal Jaundice Associated With Increased Risk Of Skin Moles In Childhood
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:00 EST
- Phase III Trial Of Nexavar In Patients With Advanced Melanoma Does Not Meet Primary Endpoint
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00 EST
- Phototherapy For Neonatal Jaundice Associated With Increased Risk Of Skin Moles In Childhood
ScienceDaily - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:00 EST
- Genta Initiates Pilot Clinical Trial Of Genasense(R) Plus Abraxane(R) And Temodar(R) As First-Line Therapy For Patients With Advanced Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
- ‘Sunshine vitamin’ protects against MS
MSNBC - Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:54 EST
- Statins and fibrates no help against melanoma
Reuters - Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:52 EST
- Scientists Harness Diptheria Toxin And Interleukin 2 To Help The Immune System Attack Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:00 EST
- Diptheria Toxin And IL2 To Help Immune System Attack Melanoma - EORTC
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
- Behaving badly: Why harmful habits stick
MSNBC - Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:32 EST
- Scientists Harness Diptheria Toxin And Interleukin 2 To Help The Immune System Attack Melanoma
ScienceDaily - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
- Pain Therapeutics Announces New Clinical Opportunity In Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
- Marathoners Risk More Skin Cancers
WebMD - Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:44 EST
- UCLA Surgeons First To Biopsy Tumor Tissue From Living Eye
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:00 EST
- Scientists Train the Body to Fight Cancer
ABC News - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:50 EST
- Scientists find new way to drum out skin cancer
MSNBC - Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:46 EST
- Genasense(R) Shown Active Using Intermittent Dosing In Melanoma Preclinical Studies
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
- Treatment for canines with cancer raises hopes
MSNBC - Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:36 EST
- Listening To The Sound Of Skin Cancer: New Technique Detects Signature Of Metastasizing Melanoma
ScienceDaily - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:00 EST
- Listening to the Sounds of Cancer
WebMD - Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:59 EST
- Melanoma often seen before Parkinson's disease
Reuters - Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:32 EST
- Melanoma Surgery Gets Broader Scope
WebMD - Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:17 EST
- Listening To The Sound Of Skin Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:00 EST
- Melanoma Surgery Gets Broader
MedicineNet - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Melanoma Cripples Lymph Node Immune Function So It Can Spread
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:00 EST
- Yale School Of Medicine Awarded $11.5 Million To Study And Treat Skin Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:00 EST
- Lymph Node Test Helps Fight Melanoma
MedicineNet - Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- UVA Studies Potential Target For Skin Cancer Treatment
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:00 EST
- Scientists Confirm New Route To Skin Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
- Spread Of Eye Cancer To Liver Can Be Predicted By Test
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:00 EST
- Early Metastases From Ocular Melanoma Signalled By Molecular Markers
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:00 EST
- Test Can Predict Spread Of Eye Cancer To Liver
ScienceDaily - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- A Promising New Vaccination Strategy For Late-Stage Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
- GNI, Uniservices Joint Research On Melanoma And Breast Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- New Method Of Gene Therapy Offers Hope For Treatment Of Melanoma, Other Common Cancers
ScienceDaily - Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- Provectus Melanoma Investigator Validates Therapeutic Use Of PV-10
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
- Leading Melanoma Specialist Validates Ablative Ability And Systemic Effects Of Provectus Anti-Cancer Agent PV-10
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Questionnaire helps estimate melanoma risk
Reuters - Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:28 EST
- New Method of Gene Therapy Alters Immune Cells for Treatment of Advanced Melanoma; Technique May Also Apply to Other Common Cancers
National Institutes of Health - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:06 EST
- Synta Pharmaceuticals Announces Phase 2 Trial Data Showing STA-4783 Doubles Median Progression-Free Survival In Metastatic Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:00 EST
- Toward Cracking The Mystery Of Disease-fighter QS-21A
ScienceDaily - Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:00 EST
- Toward Cracking The Mystery Of Disease-fighter QS-21A
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:00 EST
- Gene Therapy Used to Treat Skin Cancer
New York Times - Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:00 EST
- Gene Therapy Halts Skin Cancer
WebMD - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:00 EST
- Gene therapy transforms cells into tumor killers
MSNBC - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:38 EST
- Patients' cells turned into anti-cancer smart bombs
CNN - Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:09 EST
- Gene Therapy Acheives Promising Skin Cancer Success
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:00 EST
- Malignant Melanoma Cells Secrete Protein Required For Embryo Formation
ScienceDaily - Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:00 EST
- Malignant Melanoma Cells Secrete Protein Required For Embryo Formation
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:00 EST
- Increase in melanoma of head shows unique pattern
Reuters - Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:25 EST
- Delcath Systems Announces A New Site For The Phase III Doxorubicin Clinical Trial In San Antonio, TX
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:00 EST
- Education program improves melanoma screening
Reuters - Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:51 EST
- Baylor Institute For Immunology Research Receives $3 Million Grant To Create Cancer Vaccines Against Melanoma
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:00 EST
- Melanoma May Be Over-Diagnosed
ScienceDaily - Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:00 EST
- Melanoma:Targeted Education Of High Risk Groups Improves Screening
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:00 EST
- First-ever Criteria For Distinguishing Sun Damage From Early Melanoma, Providing Guidelines To Lessen Removal Of Healthy Tissue
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Melanoma Education Protects Patients' Siblings
MedicineNet - Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Suppression Of Telomerase Enzyme Can Inhibit Spread Of Melanoma UCSF Study Shows
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:00 EST
- ‘Mole mapping’ may help spot melanoma
MSNBC - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:59 EST
- "Mole mapping" may help people spot melanoma
Reuters - Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:32 EST
- Mouse Model Aids Discovery Of Novel Melanoma Metastasis Gene
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:00 EST
- Nexavar Receives FDA Fast Track Designation For Skin Cancer
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
- Hispanics And Blacks With Melanoma More Likely To Be Diagnosed At A Later Stage
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:00 EST
- Minorities More Likely To Be Diagnosed In Advanced Stages Of Melanoma Than Whites, Study Finds
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:00 EST
- Melanoma Risk Not Just for Whites
WebMD - Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:54 EST
- Skin Cancer Screening Rates Improved By Education Campaign
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:00 EST
- Scientists Identify an Inherited Gene That Strongly Affects Risk for the Most Common Form of Melanoma
National Institutes of Health - Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:50 EST
- Melanoma Research Progress Suggests Optimism For Future Cures
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:00 EST
- Melanoma Research Progress Suggests Optimism For Future Cures
ScienceDaily - Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:00 EST
- Melanoma deadlier for blacks, Hispanics: study
Reuters - Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:04 EST
- Sunbeds Likely To Increase Skin Cancer Risk, European Commission
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:00 EST
- Melanoma Often Spotted Later Among Blacks, Hispanics
MedicineNet - Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:00 EST
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