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Category Archives for Skin Cancer
Fenbendazole and Melanoma
Fenbendazole and Melanoma: Can This Antiparasitic Drug Fight Skin Cancer? What does the research say? Learn the mechanisms, risks, and evidence behind this controversial repurposed drug for skin cancer. Fenbendazole
Continue readingMelanoma Time Burden?
Melanoma Time Burden? What does a diagnosis do to a patient’s schedule? Oncologists and dermatologists will discuss treatment plans, scans, and follow-up procedures with you. Fellow melanoma patients
Continue readingSkin Cancer: Need-to-Know
Skin Cancer: Need-to-Know – Skin cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. While many cases are detected early and successfully treated, advanced or aggressive skin cancers can
Continue readingPreventing Skin Cancer?
It’s more akin to reducing skin cancer risk rather than preventing skin cancer. But for those of us with a history of skin cancers, supplementation with nicotinamide works. I am a high-risk skin
Continue readingPembrolizumab/Keytruda helps Melanoma?
According to the research linked below, Pembrolizumab/Keytruda helps melanoma patients. Actually, Keytruda is associated with long-term survival for 1 in 5 heavily pretreated melanoma patients. Not a great statistic… “This
Continue readingMelanoma and Your Gut Microbiome
Melanoma and the gut microbiome are linked. That is to say, a healthy gut microbiome is central to the melanoma patient’s therapy plan. The research below explains how a healthy gut microbiome enhances
Continue readingAYA Male Melanoma and Fertility
AYA Male Melanoma and Fertility aren’t words that normally go together in a sentence. I am stringing the works together because cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation can damage a person’s
Continue readingAI vs. Skin Cancer
AI vs. skin cancer? Melanoma diagnoses advance? When I go see my dermatologist, I point to the new moles that I think might be melanoma or various forms of skin cancer, and he studies them, telling me
Continue readingNon-Melanoma Skin Cancer Prevention
Non-Melanoma skin cancer prevention is easier than you think. Still, NMSC is cancer so those of diagnosed with it will want to reduce our risk of it becoming NMSC becoming melan0ma. For the record I sat
Continue readingPrevent A Melanoma In-Situ Relapse
You’ve been diagnosed with melanoma in-situ. This is not an invasive cancer yet you want to prevent a melanoma in-situ relapse. On the one hand, melanoma in-situ is not cancer, it is pre-cancer.
Continue readingRethink Mohs Surgery
If you’ve been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), you may want to rethink Mohs Surgery- the standard-of-care. All therapies have risks and benefits, pros and cons. The key is to fully
Continue readingShining a Light on Skin Cancer: Latest Tools for Early Detection
Introduction As the sun’s rays get stronger and summer approaches, it’s important to shed light on the topic of skin cancer. Early detection is key in successfully treating this potentially
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