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Researchers reveal how some skin cancer resist treatment
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered why some skin tumours cease responding to therapy as they age.
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Artificial human skin now part of new skin cancer therapy
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A research team from the University of Copenhagen has been successful in stopping invasive growth in a skin cancer model by utilising synthetic human skin.
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Artificial human skin paves the way to new skin cancer therapy: Researc
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
By using artificial human skin, a research group from the University of Copenhagen has managed to block invasive growth in a skin cancer model.
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Laser treatments help prevent skin cancer: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, jointly known as keratinocyte carcinoma and the most prevalent types of cancer diagnosed in the United States, are thought to be preventable with simple laser skin treatments, according to new research.
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Study suggests how immune cell leakage from tumours improve skin cancer tr
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Experiments on mice and human cells reveal that the number of specialised immune cells ready to combat skin cancer increased when a novel therapy prevented their egress from melanoma tumours.
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Research shows laser treatments may help prevent non-melanoma skin cancer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New research indicates that simple laser treatments to the skin may help to prevent the development of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which are collectively known as keratinocyte carcinoma and are the most common types of cancer diagnosed in the United States
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Researchers reveal why cancer patients do not react to immunotherapy
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Cancer treatment has transformed thanks to immunotherapy. The five-year survival rate for advanced melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, has climbed from less than 10% to more than 50% since the development of immunotherapy in 2011. Sadly, immunotherapy only works on about half of mel
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Cancer patients who do not react to immunotherapy lack crucial immune cell
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Immunotherapy has changed cancer treatment. Since the introduction of immunotherapy in 2011, the five-year survival rate in advanced melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has increased from less than 10% to more than 50%. Unfortunately, only approximately half of melanoma patients r
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Methotrexate use is linked to an increased risk of skin cancer: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a recent study from the University of Gothenburg, the immunosuppressive medicine methotrexate (MTX) has been linked to an increased risk of three forms of skin cancer. Patients using the medicine have moderate to severe psoriasis; nonetheless, a risk increase for basal cell carc
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Study: Artificial human skin block invasive growth in a skin cancer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A study team from the University of Copenhagen was able to stop invasive growth in a skin cancer model by utilising synthetic human skin.
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Study suggests that simple laser treatments may help prevent nonmelanoma s
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New research indicates that simple laser treatments to the skin may help to prevent the development of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which are collectively known as keratinocyte carcinoma and are the most common types of cancer diagnosed in the United States.
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Skin cancer cells use Alzheimer's protein to sabotage brain's immune defen
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Amyloid beta, a protein known to build up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when they spread to the brain, a new study finds.
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