The histologic features were those of amelanotic lentigo maligna melanoma. A wide excision was recommended. According to a review of the literature, typical patients are elderly women (ratio 3:1 ...

Tests in 1,225 patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer reveal for the first time a genetic trait among most of ...

The Eye on Grace Foundation was founded by an ocular melanoma patient to help people find treatment and travel for treatment.

For people diagnosed with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel)—a rare and slowly progressing retinal disease—there have ...

The posterior pigment epithelium is only an important determinant of eye colour when it is deficient in normal melanosomes in conditions such as albinism. The final adult iris colour is not ...

B cells show unexpected importance In addition to studying T cells, the researchers identified a role for CD20 + B lymphocytes, a less commonly discussed immune cell type in melanoma. About 22% of ...

We also know that nearly 20% of patients with GA develop wet AMD within 3 years, which is another reason to have a retina specialist involved sooner rather than later. For GA, retina specialists ...

In the 11 years since it was approved for the treatment of melanoma, pembrolizumab (Keytruda) has become the go-to for adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy for advanced melanoma, despite the potential ...

These results strongly support the view that the major cluster of melanoma samples identified in this study represents a bona fide and highly reproducible grouping. Figure 4: Variation in ...

As a nurse placed numbing drops into both of my eyes, she casually said, “I hope you don’t have to write today.” A minute later, my right eye would be dilated, followed by more numbing drops ...