John McCain's second bout with melanoma reminds all of us to take skin cancer seriously.
The result was Canvaxin, a vaccine against aggressive melanoma that was loaded up with 20 different tumor-specific components of melanoma, teaching the body new ways to recognize .
His bout with melanoma after the 2000 campaign makes his health and his age election issues today.
Diabetes drug points the way to overcoming drug resistance in melanoma Despite the success of melanoma-targeting drugs, tumors inevitably become drug resistant and return, more aggressive than before. Researchers now describe how they increase the effectiveness of anti-melanoma drugs by combining anticancer therapies with diabetes drugs. Their studies, conducted in cell and animal models of melanoma, demonstrate that the combined therapy could destroy a subset of ...
June 11, 2013 - Science Daily
John McCain in FOXNews I was in a battle not a war, like some of the people - brave Americans that Lance just pointed out, but I was in a battle with melanoma and I know : somewhat at least to a small degree how tough that battle can be,McCain said. "We all know...
Marcia Cross in PR Newswire (press release) There was and is no evidence of recurrence or metastasis - meaning spread - of the invasive melanoma nearly eight years after the surgery. : The prognosis for Sen. McCain is good because the time of greatest risk for recurrence of invasive melanoma... David Eckstein http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eckstein&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE7bDC013b7Sw8bACJflg5IYGcNeA Kansas City Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/634047.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG-i-WAxFCpFuNB7IYbIkJgjjCoQQ May 23, 2008
62589 83406 melanoma (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070301/NYTH196 ) I'm proud to be part of a cause that is near and dear to my heart," explains actress Marcia Cross. "Having had two family members suffer from melanoma, I've come to understand...