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From Death Sentence to Treatable Disease: A Conversation on Melanoma with Dr. Paul Chapman

Melanoma is among the most preventable skin cancers when found early, yet it remains the skin cancer most likely to spread ...
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A new study explores why the same mutation in the BRAF gene leads to different therapeutic responses to its inhibitors in melanoma and colorectal cancer

A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the Medical Oncology Department of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in ...
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Development of custom amplicon-based test systems for detecting KRAS, NRAS, and BRAF gene mutations in colorectal cancer using next-generation sequencing (NGS).

Correlating survival outcomes in patients with advanced prostate cancer with novel hyperpolarized 13C MRI metabolic imaging biomarkers. KRAS c.436G > A p.Ala146Thr ...
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Melanomas resist drugs by 'breaking' genes

A study has disentangled the mechanisms behind one of the ways melanoma cancer cells develop resistance to treatment. The study found that, in response to some drugs, melanomas can 'break' parts of ...
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Beating the clock: Melanoma starts evading treatment within hours – here’s how to stop it

SEATTLE – Researchers have uncovered a stealth survival strategy that melanoma cells use to evade targeted therapy, offering a promising new approach to improving treatment outcomes. The study, ...
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Beating the clock: Melanoma starts evading treatment within hours -- here's how to stop it

Researchers have uncovered a stealth survival strategy that melanoma cells use to evade targeted therapy, offering a promising new approach to improving treatment outcomes. Researchers have uncovered ...