Redheads and Melanoma
Underlying mechanism for increased risk now defined.
Melanoma
Melanoma is on the rise in children and teenagers.
Rajni Kannan on the Side Effects of Yervoy and Zelboraf
Rajni Kannan discusses the importance patient education or managing the side effects associated ipilimumab and vemurafenib in metastatic melanoma.
New Metastatic Melanoma Therapies Create Hope for Patients, Key Role for Oncology Nurses
The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest of all skin cancers, is quickly rising, and the disease is responsible for more than 8000 deaths each year.
Kathleen Madden on the Importance of Patient Education
Kathleen Madden, from NYU Langone Medical Center, on the Importance Educating Patients About Ipilimumab's Side Effects.
NSAIDs for Skin Cancer Prevention
Researchers find that people who took NSAIDs were less likely to develop skin cancer.
Krista Rubin on Understanding Ipilimumab's Toxicities
Krista Rubin, from Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, on Understanding Ipilimumab's Toxicities.
Metastatic Melanoma: Timely Approval of Yervoy
After a long fight with melanoma, the Roman Catholic parish priest Father Arthur Humphrey was able to receive the immunotherapeutic agent Yervoy, which greatly improved his prognosis.
Special Report on Immunotherapy: Managing Yervoy's Side Effects
As an immunotherapy, Yervoy presents a unique set of side effects and it was approved along with a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy to address these events.
ASCO 2011: What Nurses Need to Know
Personal perspectives from oncology nurses of abstracts presented at ASCO on research with the potential to change practice, important studies that failed to meet expectations, and topics particularly relevant to oncology nurses.
Flip Flops, Baseball Caps, and Skin Cancer
Sun exposure to usually-covered skin is yet another risk for skin cancer.
Dana Monroe on Yervoy Side Effect Nurse Self-Education
Dana Monroe from San Francisco Oncology Associates on Yervoy Side Effects and How Oncology Nurses Can Self-Educate
Net Guides: Melanoma
Useful Online Resources and Clinical Trials for Melanoma
The Emperor of All Maladies: Documenting Cancer's Long Reign
The Emperor of All Maladies bills itself as a "biography of cancer," and while author Siddhartha Mukherjee cannot tell us precisely when cancer opened its eyes in this world...
John Theurer Cancer Center Opens New Comprehensive Facility
The John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, one of the largest cancer centers in the United States
Oncology Community Facing Severe Drug Shortages
Hospitals, pharmacists, and physicians across the United States are reporting shortages of critical anticancer drugs, including carboplatin, cisplatin, dacarbazine, fludarabine, and cytarabine.
Pollack Discusses Ongoing Research for Patients With Refractory mCRC and Other Hard-to-Treat GI Malignancies
Pollack Offers Perspective on 2023 ASCO GI Cancers Symposium
Nivolumab/Cabozantinib Shows Continued Benefit In Frontline Treatment of RCC
Goodman Highlights Potential Benefit of SBRT in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer