Researchers at the University of Turku, Turku University Central Hospital, and Western Cancer Center (FICAN West) have discovered a new RNA molecule, PRECSIT, which regulates the growth and invasion of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. In the future, PRECSIT could...
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University of Arizona Cancer Center Skin Care Institute Receives $6.9m for Research into Proteins & Novel Topical Drugs
The University of Arizona Cancer Center has received a $6.9 million grant for skin cancer prevention research thanks to the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute. This Arizona-based team of researchers seek to develop new strategies and techniques...
Royal Marsden Reports on its Participation in the Significant Checkmate 067 Trial: Survival now Extended for Advanced Melanoma Patients
A new treatment based on combining two drugs—nivolumab and ipilimumab—may represent a milestone in how we treat skin cancer patients. More than half of these patients can now survive the condition (considered untreatable just a decade ago) thanks to a study led by the...
SkinVision Technology Able to Detect Skin Cancer With High Accuracy
The Netherlands’ Erasmus University Medical Center and an international team of investigators has determined that SkinVision, the first CE-marked skin cancer application thoroughly tested in clinical studies, reports a sensitivity of 95.1% in detecting the most common...
Perelman School of Medicine Study Shows How Helping Skin Cells Differentiate Could be Key to Treating Common Skin Cancer
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified a key regulator that impedes skin replacement—a blockage which can trigger the development of skin cancer. Published in Cell Reports, the team report that the skin’s...
Aarhus University Hospital-led Study Reveals Antibiotics Thwart Disease Activity in Advanced Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
Researchers from Denmark’s Aarhus University Hospital have shown that antibiotics administered to treat Staphylococcus aureus appeared to inhibit disease among patients with advanced cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. The prospective study results were published in Blood and...
Drexel University Study Reveals Black Americans Get More Skin Cancer Possibly Due to Immunosuppressants!
Drexel University College of Medicine recently conducted a study on skin cancer in people of color—especially blacks. The common assumption is that black people do not contract skin cancer due to the amount of melanin in the skin. Investigators are learning that...
Fred Hutch & UW Receive $12M from NIH to Investigate Rare Aggressive Skin Cancer
Jake Siegel of Fred Hutch News Service reports that a multidisciplinary research team involving University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center received a $12 million grant to study a deadly form of skin cancer known as Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC)....
Washington University Research Finds Topical Immunotherapy Keep Skin Cancer Risk at Bay
Washington University School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School report on the results of a study showing that a combination of two topical creams already show to clear precancerous skin lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the...