In those with cutaneous melanoma of the head and neck, Black patients vs patients of other races and ethnicities had the greatest mortality risk.

White patients have the highest incidence of second primary melanoma, while Black patients face the greatest relative risk, according to a study.

Among patients with first primary cutaneous melanoma, White patients had the highest absolute risk of second primary melanomas.

Eyewitness News meteorologist and "Good Morning America" anchor Sam Champion, 63, has been detailing his skin cancer journey to raise awareness.

Sep. 16, 2024 — Long-term data from a landmark international trial show about half of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with a combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors survive cancer ...

mRNA specialist BioNTech has chalked up an important win in its cancer pipeline, showing efficacy with its BNT111 vaccine candidate in a phase 2 trial in advanced melanoma. The study is looking at ...

The therapy relies on the patient’s own T cells, a type of white blood cells in the immune system that can recognize and kill cancer cells, Olson said. These cells are also found in melanoma tumors.

Supporters of the University of Arizona Cancer Center Skin Cancer Institute Second Annual Fight Melanoma Golf Tournament ...

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It develops when skin cells multiply rapidly as a consequence of mutations in their DNA caused by UV exposure. Melanomas originate in the pigment ...

In this important study, the authors used a zebrafish model and scRNAseq analysis to show that a subset of keratinocytes within melanoma microenvironment highly up-regulate Twist and undergo ...

This study is looking at an immunotherapy treatment called V940 (mRNA-4157) with pembrolizumab to treat melanoma.

The advent of large-scale sequencing in both development and disease has identified large numbers of candidate genes that may be linked to important phenotypes. Validating the function of these ...