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Malignant Melanoma - Articles
Cancer From The Sun - The Scourge Of Malignant Melanoma Skin Cancer
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Healthy Living ..
Posted
Sun 12 Apr 2009 11:21pm
Melanocytes are the cells that produce melanin. Melanin gives dark or tan color to the skin. But, when one of these cells gets out of control, it can produce one of the most dangerous cancers known. And more than 52,3237 people are told that they have melanoma every year just inside the USA.
Risks for getting Malignant Melanoma
The most com ...
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22-Year Survivor of Stage 4 Malignant Melanoma to Speak in Maine
by
Meg W.
Posted
Sat 21 Mar 2009 3:57pm
Marlene McKenna of Rhode Island will speak about her experience as a 22-year survivor of Stage 4 malignant melanoma at our local macrobiotic potluck. Please come listen to Marlene's amazing story of how she survived with a
prognosis of less than one year to live. Her cancer survival has been medically documented and has baffled many physicians ...
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New Potential Drug to Treat advanced Melanoma
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Medical Quack
Posted
Mon 01 Jun 2009 10:43pm
Clinical Trials state that the drug is prolonging life and also showing to shrink tumors. We may all remember the Super Bowl this year with Bruce Springsteen and the member of his band lost to skin cancer, and now there’s the Danny Fund foundation where you can contribute.
This study looks good, but a larger clinical trial will be started so ...
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FYI: APDA Asks – Is there a connection between Melanoma, Levodopa and PD?
by
Sherri W.
Posted
Sat 08 Sep 2012 2:27am
Artwork by Sherri Woodbridge
Copyright 2011
The following article was written by Diane Church and appeared in the APDA online newsletter recently and I felt the topic worthwhile, valuable, and important to post here… Thank you, Diane, for such a well-researched and informative article. The PD community thanks you.
If you are ...
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Melanoma and Parkinson’s disease
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Sherri W.
Posted
Fri 12 Oct 2012 7:34am
Levodopa has been the most common treatment for PD for nearly 45 years. That’s a fairly longstanding amount of time.. Most people don’t even stay married that long anymore. However, although it continues to be the most common treatment for so long, shortly after its inception into becoming the medicinal therapy for PD, an associatio ...
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Marathon Training Runs Up Risk of Melanoma
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Tom H.
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:22pm
By Crystal Phend,
Training for the marathon puts runners at risk for malignant melanoma and other skin cancers, according to researchers here.
Action Points
Counsel patients interested in marathon running that this study recommends reducing ultraviolet exposure during long-distance running by doing it with low-sun exposure, and by ...
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Celebrex for melanoma
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Mark Levin
Posted
Mon 12 Apr 2010 9:01am
Celecoxib, sold under the brand name of Celebrex by Pfizer Inc., is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug which has anti-nagiogenic properties and has been explored in a nubmer of cancers botht herapeutically adn for prevention. Expression of COX-2 in malignant melanoma has been investigated by immunohistochemistry in 28 cases of primary sk ...
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Mutations of the ERBB4 Gene in Melanoma
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nih.gov
Posted
Thu 21 Jan 2010 4:00pm
Description of Invention:
Cutaneous malignant melanoma is the most common fatal skin cancer, and the incidence of this disease increases each year. The average survival time for patients diagnosed with malignant melanoma is less than ten months. Consequently, it is important to identify and understand genetic alterations leadi ...
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Melanoma doctor urges us to get more sun!
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Dr. John B.
Posted
Thu 26 May 2011 3:04am
I almost fell of office chair yesterday when I read this article in the UK’s Daily Mail by oncologist (cancer specialist) Professor Angus Dalgleish. Professor Dalgleish has a particular interest in malignant melanoma. In the piece, he draws our attention to the links between vitamin D and cancer, including the link between low vitamin D leve ...
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