New research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient's T cells outside the body before ...
Apr 16, 2024
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An advanced surgical therapy has proved considerably more efficacious than conventional treatments for patients with melanoma in the eye (uveal) that has spread to the liver, a University of Gothenburg study shows. The treatment ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Findings from an international research study involving Irish and Spanish patients reveal a candidate drug and biomarker that could be used to manage uveal melanoma.
Feb 2, 2023
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A new genetically engineered virus has delivered a one-two punch against advanced cancers in initial findings from a phase I trial.
Sep 23, 2022
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Considerable progress has been made to improve, extend, and save lives of patients with cancer in the last year, according to the 12th annual Cancer Progress Report released by the American Association for Cancer Research ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Constitutively activated G proteins caused by specific mutations mediate the development of multiple malignancies. The mutated Gαq/11 are perceived as oncogenic drivers in the vast majority of uveal melanoma (UM) cases, ...
Sep 5, 2022
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An international team of researchers led by University College Dublin (UCD) have uncovered a potential treatment approach for advanced uveal melanoma (UM), a type of cancer that effects the eye.
May 20, 2022
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A potentially game-changing trial involving University of Liverpool researchers has shown how an immunotherapy drug can prolong the life of patients with an aggressive form of eye cancer.
Nov 3, 2021
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Once it has spread, uveal (intraocular or eye) melanoma—an unusual form of cancer—has a very high mortality rate. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and doctors at the University of Gothenburg ...
Aug 27, 2021
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Uveal melanoma, or UM, is a rare and deadly cancer of the eye, and the mortality rate has remained unimproved for 40 years. Half of the melanomas spread to other organs of the body, causing death in less than a year, so new ...
Jul 14, 2021
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