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Melanoma: Ready for Takeoff

BY CHARLOTTE HUFF

New therapies are enhancing melanoma treatment.

Research

Pair of Melanoma Studies Usher in a New Standard of Therapy for Patients with Advanced Disease

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

Melanoma studies with Yervoy and vemurafenib show benefit in advanced disease.

Nonmelanoma

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer: Saving Your Skin

BY MONICA ZANGWILL, MD

Treating and preventing the nation's most common cancer.

Actinic Keratoses

A Skin Cancer Conundrum: Are AKs Overtreated?

BY CURTIS PESMEN

Answers to the treatment debate for actinic keratosis, a precancerous growth on the skin.


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Diagnosis

Diagnosing Skin Cancer

BY SUSAN PECK, PHD

Skin cancers are almost always visible and easy to detect--if you're looking for them. 

Treatment

Below the Surface

BY NICOLE LEBRASSEUR, PHD AND HEATHER L. VAN EPPS, PHD

New therapies for melanoma exploit biological insights to combat this dangerous skin cancer.

Tissue Banking

International Melanoma Tissue Bank in the Works

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

A new organization aims to strike back at melanoma by developing the first-ever international melanoma tissue bank. 

Palliative Care

Under New Management

BY PAUL ENGSTROM

Newer and better supportive care days to control side effects are making treatments easier for patients. 

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