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Firefighters Face Elevated Mortality Rates for Skin and Kidney Cancer
FRIDAY, Aug. 1, 2025 – Occupation as a firefighter is associated with elevated cancer mortality, especially for skin and kidney cancer, according to a study published online July 29 in the...
AI Boosts Skin Cancer Diagnoses, Study Says
WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2025 — An experimental AI tool can help speed detection of melanoma and other skin diseases, a new study says. The tool, PanDerm, improved accuracy of skin cancer diagnoses by 11% ...
AI Model Can Aid Physicians in Skin Cancer Diagnoses
TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 – The PanDerm artificial intelligence (AI) model improves skin cancer diagnosis when used by doctors, according to a research article published online June 6 in Nature ...
AACR: Pretrained Machine Learning Models Help Diagnose Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer
TUESDAY, April 29, 2025 – Leveraging whole slide embedding from pretrained foundation models (FMs) improves nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) diagnosis, according to a study presented at the annual...
Circulating Tumor DNA Can ID Outcomes for Patients With Melanoma
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2025 – Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) measurements of cell-free, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can identify patients with melanoma and a high risk for...
Common Photosensitizing Drugs Increase Skin Cancer Risk
TUESDAY, April 1, 2025 – Some commonly prescribed photosensitizing drugs increase skin cancer risk, according to a study published online March 18 in Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & ...
Many U.S. Adults Still Have Misconceptions About Skin Cancer Risk
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – About two-thirds of U.S. adults report no sunburns in the past year, with significant associations seen between the number of sunburns and sociodemographic factors,...
Adding 3D Total Body Photography to Usual Care Increases Rate of Skin Excisions
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – The addition of three-dimensional (3D) total-body photography (TBP) and sequential digital dermoscopy imaging (SDDI) via teledermatology to usual care increases the...
Diabetes Drug Metformin Protects Against Skin Cancer, New Research Says
TUESDAY, Jan. 14, 2025 – A popular diabetes drug can provide protection against skin cancers, a new study says. Metformin significantly reduces people’s risk of developing basal cell cancers or s...
Teledermoscopy Accurate for Detecting Skin Cancers
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 – Teledermoscopy has high accuracy for detecting skin cancers, according to a research letter published online Nov. 9 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology....
New Set of Risk Factors Can Boost Detection of Suspicious Skin Lesions
MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 – A new set of skin cancer risk factors can improve detection of suspicious skin lesions, according to a study published online Sept. 6 in Scientific Reports. Shafiqul Islam,...
FDA Approves Libtayo (cemiplimab-rwlc) as First Immunotherapy Indicated for Patients with Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the PD-1 ...
FDA Approves Odomzo (sonidegib) for Locally Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma
July 24, 2015 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Odomzo (sonidegib) to treat patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma that has recurred following surgery or radiation...
FDA Approves Erivedge for Basal Cell Carcinoma
SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Today, Erivedge (vismodegib) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat adult patients with basal cell carcinoma, ...