For decades, skin cancer has been framed as a threat primarily to those with lighter skin tones, leaving a dangerous gap in awareness and medical attention for Black individuals. This ...
An enhanced model that integrates non-AJCC clinical features provides clinicians with a more accurate tool for identifying high-risk patients with MCC.
IGNORANCE about skin cancer — particularly melanoma — among Jamaicans has led to many patients being diagnosed with the disease at later stages, resulting in expensive treatment options and ...
Like Bob Marley’s cancer, experts have warned that what may look like a toenail injury could actually be a skin cancer symptom.(Instagram @bobmarley) Bob Marley, the legendary Jamaican reggae ...
the ‘Below Deck Down Under’ star said Fred Jagueneau/Bravo via Getty; Jason Chambers Jason Chambers feels embarrassed that he wasn’t more careful in the sun before his skin cancer journey.
New data showed that prior malignancy may influence survival outcomes in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, ...
Jan. 15, 2025 — A new twist on a decades-old anticancer strategy has shown powerful effects against multiple cancer types in a preclinical study. The experimental approach, which uses tiny ...
The American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System (AJCC) for Cutaneous Melanoma will be discussed. The 2002 version of the staging system was recently published (Balch et al., 2001a & b).
Jan. 15, 2025 — In patients with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer, post-surgery, or adjuvant, treatment with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) reduced the long-term risk of death or invasive ...
The clinical approach, epidemiology, diagnostic procedures, and management, along with followup of superficial spreading malignant melanoma are discussed. A 45-year-old Caucasian female presented ...
You can’t pretend the pink pachyderm isn’t staring you in the face on Saturday. But if you must draw attention to it, at least soften the hard edges of your truth with graceful diplomacy. A ...