ALLMedicine™ Malignant Melanoma Center

May 18th, 2022 - Locoregional and distant metastases account for most cases of morbidity and mortality associated with melanoma. In addition, local recurrences of melanoma might be the onset of disseminated disease. Therefore, precise diagnosis and therapy are war...

May 17th, 2022 - SARS-CoV-2 has massively changed the care situation in hospitals worldwide. Although tumor care should not be affected, initial reports from European countries were suggestive for a decrease in skin cancer during the first pandemic wave and only l...

May 15th, 2022 - The significance of intratumoural CD163+ macrophages in oral malignant melanoma: A preliminary study.|2022|Kodama T,Shigeoka M,Nishio M,Koma YI,Akashi M,|

May 13th, 2022 - Background: Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have few approved therapeutic options and those that exist are of transient benefit. Recent clinical experiences with experimental agents that release checkpoints on the host ...

May 12th, 2022 - BRAF mutation exists in about 10-12% of colorectal cancer, among which BRAF V600E mutation is the most common type, which is an important biomarker for predicting the prognosis and precise treatment efficacy of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)....

Nov 22nd, 2017 - Vulvar cancer and vaginal cancer are relatively rare tumors, and there had been no established treatment principles or guidelines to treat these rare tumors in Japan. The first version of the Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (JSGO) guidelines...

May 9th, 2008 - Cutaneous malignant melanoma: ESMO clinical recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.|2008|Dummer R,Hauschild A,Jost L, ,|diagnosis,epidemiology,pathology,therapy,diagnosis,epidemiology,pathology,therapy,

May 13th, 2022 - Background: Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have few approved therapeutic options and those that exist are of transient benefit. Recent clinical experiences with experimental agents that release checkpoints on the host ...

May 12th, 2022 - BRAF mutation exists in about 10-12% of colorectal cancer, among which BRAF V600E mutation is the most common type, which is an important biomarker for predicting the prognosis and precise treatment efficacy of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)....

Apr 26th, 2022 - The Lipo-MERIT vaccine consists of four naked ribonucleic acid (RNA)-drug products (DPs) that are optimized to induce antigen-specific cluster of differentiation (CD)8+ and CD4+ T cell responses against the four selected malignant melanoma-associa...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - A recent survey of clinical genetic testing laboratories for cancer diagnostics by the Molecular Oncology Advisory Committee for Cancer Care Ontario identified disparities in access and use patterns for next generation sequencing (NGS) across the ...

Apr 19th, 2022 - The goal of this research study is to develop an algorithm that predicts the patient's treatment outcome.This algorithm will serve as a tool for physicians when making treatment decisions, specifically for stage IV NSCLC and malignant melanoma pat...

Apr 6th, 2022 - The Skill Checkup series provides a quick, case-style interactive quiz highlighting key guidelines- and evidence-based information to inform clinical practice. A 73-year-old woman presented for follow-up of malignant melanoma. The melanoma was res...

Mar 18th, 2022 - Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have unquestionably revolutionized the care of patients with malignant melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and other types of cancer. But about 40% of patients with cancer treated with ICIs will experience imm...

Feb 23rd, 2022 - Malignant melanoma is the third most common cutaneous cancer after basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Although most malignant melanomas are diagnosed at an early stage, this cancer also has the inherent ability to spread aggressivel...

Feb 22nd, 2022 - Malignant melanoma is the fifth most common cancer, with an estimated 106,110 new cases in the United States in 2021. The incidence of malignant melanoma has been on the rise globally and trails only lung cancer in women in terms of the rate of in...

Feb 3rd, 2022 - To the Editor: Trauma from a pencil tip can sometimes result in a fragment of lead being left embedded within the skin. Pencil lead is composed of 66% graphite carbon, 26% aluminum silicate, and 8% paraffin.