Known as the “great masquerader,” amelanotic melanoma may resemble a variety of benign lesions, thereby increasing diagnostic complexity.
This news could be tough to face. A new report from the Skin Cancer Foundation predicts that 234,680 cases of melanoma will ...
Staging means finding out how far melanoma has spread in the body. Providers group melanoma into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I melanoma being the least advanced and stage IV melanoma being ...
Melanoma patients with high levels of a protein that controls the expression of pro-growth genes are less likely to survive, according to a study led by researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at ...
Melanoma in situ (MIS), also called stage 0 melanoma, is the earliest stage of melanoma, when the cancer is confined to the outermost layer of skin. Most melanomas affect the skin, but they can also ...
That’s a question that comes to mind each summer when everyone seems to be reporting on two contradictory health concerns—skin-cancer levels are high and vitamin D levels are low—without explaining ...
New research has linked higher plasma levels of the healthy fats omega-3 and omega-6 to a reduced risk of developing particular types of cancer. The study adds to the on-again/off-again relationship ...