malignant melanoma
Special Gold Nanoparticles Show Promise for “Cooking” Cancer Cells
They have developed the first hollow gold nanospheres — smaller than the finest flecks of dust — that search out and “cook” cancer cells. The cancer-destroying…
A new measure for the malignancy of melanoma
This process called angiogenesis involves a number of different growth factors and their respective receptors on the vascular wall cells. The departments of…
Social class dictates cancer risk
A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published today in…
New data on melanoma treatment
Melanomas are known to be caused by exposure to the ultraviolet light in sunlight, but the precise mechanisms involved are complex. In a presentation at the…
Temozolomide and thalidomide combination effective against malignant melanoma spread to the central nervous system
The non-randomised phase II trial, published in the online journal ecancermedicalscience, investigated the combination of thalidomide and temozolomide. It is…