Although rare, melanoma is one of the easiest forms of cancer for an individual to detect on his or her own.  After all, it’s a form of skin cancer and can be easily seen by the naked eye.  A new…

The most lethal form of skin cancer is on the rise in American women aged 15 to 39, according to data provided by the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, operated by the National Cancer Institute.  The number of…

Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, have recently published the result of a study conducted there that reveals a death rate in cancer patients with melanomas of the head and neck that is nearly twice as…

In a recent study, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that giving patients with advanced melanoma or ovarian cancer that have been immunized with a GVAX vaccine, periodic infusions of anti-CTLA-4 antibodies provides a strong immune response to tumors…