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Advances in treatment have led to the largest yearly declines in deaths due to melanoma ever recorded for this skin cancer, results of a new study suggest. Read more here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200319161525.htm

Treatment of melanoma has switched gears after immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies were first introduced in 2011. Currently, the combination of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) and anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) inhibitor ipilimumab (Yervoy) is the most aggressive treatment regimen available for advanced metastatic melanoma. This combination demonstrated a 52% 5-year survival rate in the Phase III CheckMate-062 study, ...

The number of people who die each year from the skin cancer melanoma has dramatically decreased in recent years, results from a new study show.

Click here for full article: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020/metastatic-melanoma-deaths-drop

This page contains the links for the downloadable PDF documents used by the Students Against Melanoma Club. If you are interested in starting a SAM Club at your school, please email rita@melanomafoundation.com 

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Lately, you may have heard various claims questioning the safety and effectiveness of sunscreen. Perhaps you heard that instead of protecting against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, sunscreen actually causesthe disease, and that the chemicals in sunscreen are every bit as dangerous as the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays. Here, we address some of those concerns.

Are the chemicals in sunscreen safe? I've heard about problems with oxybenzone, retinyl palmitate and...

The red in redheads' hair is thought to put them at increased risk of the dangerous skin cancer melanoma, even if they don't spend a lot of time in the sun, according to a new study.
Study co-author Dr. David Fisher and his research team first uncovered the apparent link between red hair pigment and melanoma last fall. That study used genetically altered mice that had been given a mutant gene that increased their risk of contracting the skin cancer.

Now the...