The sound of melanoma can help doctors find cancer
February 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Kelsey Jackson
JacksonKN@missouri.edu
573-882-8353
University of Missouri-Columbia Read more
How sunlight causes skin cells to turn cancerous
January 14, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Jim Ritter
jritter@lumc.edu
708-216-2445
Loyola University Health System Read more
Melanoma stem cells’ evasive talents
January 11, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Keri Stedman
keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu
617-919-3110
Children’s Hospital Boston Read more
Discovery at JGH opens door to new treatments for prostate, brain and skin cancers
January 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Mark Shainblum
mshainblum@jgh.mcgill.ca
514-340-8222 x6592
Jewish General Hospital Read more
Common anti-inflammatory drug could help prevent skin cancers, Stanford researcher says
January 4, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Krista Conger
kristac@stanford.edu
650-725-5371
Stanford University Medical Center
STANFORD, Calif. A widely-available anti-inflammatory prescription drug can reduce the risk of a common skin cancer in humans, according to a researcher at Stanford’s School of Medicine. Although oral administration of the drug, celecoxib, is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke in some people, it’s possible that topical application could have a safer, protective effect for people prone to developing the cancers, called basal cell carcinomas, the researcher believes.
New model of skin cancer provides insights on second-most common type of cancer
December 9, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Contact: Karen Kreeger
karen.kreeger@uphs.upenn.edu
215-349-5658
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
PHILADELPHIA Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed a new model of skin cancer based on the knowledge that a common cancer-related molecule called Src kinase is activated in human skin-cancer samples.
New device enables early detection of cancerous skin tumors
November 24, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are developing a new device that detects cancerous skin tumors, including melanomas that aren’t visible to the naked eye.
During initial testing, the OSPI instrument (Optical Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging) revealed new textures of lesions that have never been seen before - including melanoma in patients who were diagnosed with various skin lesions and were awaiting surgery for their removal. The instrument diagnosed 73 types of lesions, some of them cancerous.
Trial of new treatment for advanced skin cancer shows rapid shrinking of tumors
September 23, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Berlin, Germany: Researchers have made significant advances in the treatment of metastatic malignant melanoma one of the most difficult cancers to treat successfully once it has started to spread according to a study to be presented at Europe’s largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 ESMO 34 [1], in Berlin on Thursday.
Novel anti-cancer drug yields positive response in people with advanced skin and brain cancer
September 2, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is involved in a preliminary study and case report describing positive responses to an experimental anticancer drug in a majority of people with advanced or metastatic basal cell skin cancers. One patient with the most common type of pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma, also showed tumor shrinkage.
New skin cancer vaccine being called a breakthrough
June 1, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
In what is being called a medical breakthrough, a vaccine that targets skin cancer has shown improved response rates and progression-free survival for patients when combined with the immunotherapy drug, Interleukin-2.
