May 10th 2024
Earlier this week, we shared our first Skin Cancer Awareness Month quiz. Review the answers and your responses below.
Advances In: Integrating New Treatment Options into Management Plans for Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis
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Medical Crossfire®: Maximizing Patient Outcomes in Shingles – Are You Leveraging Guideline Based Care?
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"REEL" Time Patient Counseling™: Integrating Biosimilars into the Clinical Conversation
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PER Skin Summit: Optimizing Diagnosis and Individualizing Management of Hidradenitis Suppurativa
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Community Practice Connections™: 19th Annual International Symposium on Melanoma and Other Cutaneous Malignancies®
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Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: A Deeper Look at the Pathogenesis of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS)
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Cancer Summaries and Commentaries™: Clinical Updates in Melanoma from Philadelphia
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Expert Illustrations & Commentaries™: Picturing the Potential Role of OX40 and OX40L Inhibitors in Atopic Dermatitis
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Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS): Deepening Foundations of Knowledge in Disease Pathogenesis, Disease Severity Assessment, and Treatment Decision-Making
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Emerging options for high-risk melanoma
August 26th 2020Recruiting is ongoing for an investigator-initiated clinical trial of pembrolizumab in clinical stage 2B/C melanoma which will investigate the effects of treatment with pembrolizumab before surgery to remove melanoma on the rate of positive sentinel lymph nodes in patients with stage IIB/C melanoma.
Collaboration makes progresses standards for implementing AI
August 11th 2020The International Skin Imaging Collaboration is an academic and industry partnership designed to facilitate the clinical application of digital skin imaging, with an initial focus on melanoma. The group is developing standards for dermatologic imaging and building a public archive of clinical and dermoscopic images for use in developing artificial intelligence diagnostic algorithms.
FDA approves combination treatment for advanced melanoma
July 30th 2020The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved atezolizumab plus cobimetinib and vemurafenib for treatment of BRAF V600 mutation-positive advanced melanoma. Studies show the combination treatment prolonged patients’ lives by 15 months without disease worsening.
Sunscreen controversies confuse consumers
July 6th 2020Patients may be afraid to use a sunscreen considering reports describing the potential for a variety of adverse effects. Physicians should seek a strong understanding of the evidence to discuss benefits and safety with patients and encourage proper sunscreen use.
Nanotechnology: An opportunity to advance skin cancer treatment
July 1st 2020In cancer immunotherapy, nanoparticles can be directed to different cells and tissues related to the immune response. This technology is currently being investigated to enhance drug delivery in skin cancer therapy with the hope of promoting more robust antitumor effects and improved clinical outcomes.
Recognize melanoma tumor syndromes
June 5th 2020Recognition of patients with hereditary melanoma is important not only because these individuals require careful surveillance for future primary melanomas, but also because they may be predisposed to multiple other types of malignancies because of their genetic mutation, says Hensin Tsao, M.D., Ph.D.
New device treats nonmelanoma skin cancer
June 4th 2020A new energy-based device delivering ultrafast pulses of high amplitude electrical energy to nonthermally preferentially clear targeted cell rich lesions is proving to be a very useful treatment modality for a number of benign dermatologic lesions.
5-year follow-up demonstrates long-term benefit of dabrafenib/trametinib for stage 3 melanoma
June 4th 2020Results presented at the recent ASCO 2020 Virtual Scientific Program demonstrate the long-term relapse-free and survival benefit of dabrafenib (Tafinlar, Novartis) and trametinib (Mekinist, Novartis) as a combination treatment following surgery in stage III BRAF V600E/K-mutant melanoma patients.
The future of actinic keratosis treatment
May 4th 2020It is estimated that 0.025% to 16% of all actinic keratosis (AK) lesions may progress into invasive SCC per year, and there is still no marker to predict which lesions will progress, according to a recent paper that outlined diagnostic challenges as well as current and pipeline treatment approaches.
A paradigm shift in squamous cell carcinoma treatment
March 30th 2020Recent advances in systemic therapies have led to the development of PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, which one expert says may represent a paradigm shift in the treatment and management of patients with locally advanced or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).