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2. FDA approves groundbreaking treatment for advanced melanoma - AOL

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   Dan Bennett, 59, credits TIL therapy with allowing him to beat the slim odds of long-term survival of stage 4 melanoma. His daughter, Faith Bennett, 29, first noticed a suspicious mole on Bennett ...

3. What is malignant melanoma? - AOL

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   Sarah, Duchess of York has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma following the removal of a cancerous mole during treatment for breast cancer. Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to ...

4. Melanoma - Wikipedia

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   The word melanoma has a long history of being used in a broader sense to refer to any melanocytic tumor, typically, but not always malignant, [170] [171] but today the narrower sense referring only to malignant types has become so dominant that benign tumors are usually not called melanomas anymore and the word melanoma is now usually taken to ...

5. Cancer immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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   It was approved in 2014. Nivolumab is approved to treat melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancer, and Hodgkin's lymphoma. [159] A 2016 clinical trial for non-small cell lung cancer failed to meet its primary endpoint for treatment in the first-line setting, but is FDA-approved in subsequent lines of therapy. [160]

6. Skin cancer - Wikipedia

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   The mortality rate of basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinoma is around 0.3%, causing 2000 deaths per year in the US. In comparison, the mortality rate of melanoma is 15–20% and it causes 6500 deaths per year. [67]: 29, 31 Even though it is much less common, malignant melanoma is responsible for 75% of all skin cancer-related deaths. [68]

7. Melanocytic tumors of uncertain malignant potential - Wikipedia

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   Several lesion types may be classified as MELTUMPs: these include atypical melanocytic proliferations with features that may overlap with atypical Spitz naevi/tumors, dysplastic naevi, pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma, deep penetrating naevi, congenital naevi, cellular nodules in congenital naevi, possible naevoid melanomas, and cellular blue ...