Diagnosis and management of EF in the setting of cancer immunotherapy requires close collaboration between patient’s oncologist, dermatologist, and rheumatologist.
Greater increase seen for distant-stage and regional-stage SCCA than for localized-stage SSCA.
A phase 3 trial looking at nivolumab and ipilimumab in advanced melanoma has reported increased survival with the combination, but notable toxicities.
Researchers investigated the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate skin lesions suspicious for melanoma in camera-based images as a potential decision-support tool.
For individuals with obesity, risk for skin cancer and melanoma significantly reduced with bariatric surgery.
A small study on patients with metastatic melanoma who were treated with autologous vaccines in a phase 2 clinical trial suggests that soluble PD-1 may have potential as a prognostic biomarker.
In study, none of the second opinion strategies eliminated diagnostic misclassification.
Risk for head, neck melanoma higher for male sex, older age, non-Hispanic white ethnicity
If crowdfunding doesn’t work, here’s how oncologists can help patients with financial toxicity.
Ten different drugs continued to kill cancer cells even when their target proteins were removed.
