Skin Cancer News

• Derm Care in Indian Country: Challenges, Opportunities To foster more sustainable change in the delivery of skin care beyond teledermatology and periodic visits from volunteers, some dermatology residencies have established partnerships with tribes.
  MDedge News, July 21, 2023
• Sun Protection Popular in China as Temperatures Soar In scorching Beijing, 'facekinis' are the hottest new fashion downtown as surging temperatures shatter records.
  Reuters Health Information, July 20, 2023
• Study Supports New NCCN Classification for Cutaneous SCC The goal of the study was to compare outcomes in very-high-, high-, and low-risk NCCN groups as well as outcomes of CSCCs stratified by treatment with Mohs and wide local excision.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2023
• VA Study Finds Lower Racial Disparity in Melanoma Diagnoses The results might be explained by "all patients in the VA dataset having insured access to health care, regardless of socioeconomic status," the authors wrote.
  MDedge News, June 09, 2023
• Choosing SPF Is Only the Start When Recommending Sunscreens A recent study found that 43% of dermatologists surveyed reported that they never, rarely, or only sometimes took a patient's skin type into account when making sunscreen recommendations.
  MDedge News, June 02, 2023
• ASLMS 2023 Picosecond Laser Applications Continue to Expand Several FDA-cleared picosecond devices are used to treat nevus of Ota, café-au-lait macules, lentigines, melasma, and photoaging, as well as for removing tattoos.
  MDedge News, May 11, 2023
• ASLMS 2023 Treating BCC: Early Data on Controlled Hyperthermia Histologic clearance of tumors after treatment approached 90%, according to an interim report from an ongoing study.
  MDedge News, May 05, 2023
• For the Uninsured, Securing Cancer Care Is Like a Roulette Wheel When uninsured people are diagnosed with cancer, accessing resources and paying for treatment can be daunting. The safety nets meant to help often fall short. Some patients find it easier to play the odds.
  KFF Health News, April 10, 2023
• Study Highlights Potential Skin Cancer Risk of UV Nail Dryers UV nail lamps, used to dry and harden gel nail polish, emit UVA radiation and are often referred to as 'mini tanning beds.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 05, 2023
• AAD 2023 Dermatomyositis: Data Support IFN-Beta as Therapeutic Target Response rates in a phase 2 trial of a novel therapy for skin-predominant dermatomyositis were favorable in patients failed by at least one prior standard therapy, prompting plans for a phase 3 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, March 20, 2023
• Nicotinamide Does Not Prevent Skin Cancer After Organ Transplant Although nicotinamide is often recommended, when it was put to the test, it had no efficacy in preventing nonmelanoma skin cancers among transplant recipients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023
• Severe, Atypical Skin Reactions With Amivantamab in NSCLC Some of the cutaneous adverse events to amivantamab, which targets both EGFR and MET, can be severe and have atypical presentations, which led to dose reductions in five of six cases.
  MDedge News, February 09, 2023
• White House: Jill Biden Has Two Cancerous Lesions Removed Surgeons removed a cancerous lesion above First Lady Jill Biden 's right eye and one on her chest.
  Associated Press, January 12, 2023
• Regular Vitamin D Supplements May Lower Melanoma Risk Taking vitamin D supplements, even just occasionally, may reduce an individual's risk of developing malignant melanoma, suggest the results of a Finnish retrospective analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2023
• Long-term Maintenance Treatment Required in Patients With Melasma Treatments for melasma include laser-based approaches, which can also increase the skin permeability of topical treatments, according to Arisa Ortiz, MD.
  MDedge News, January 04, 2023
• Study Eyes Sunscreens Marketed to People With Skin of Color A higher average cost of these products compared with the cost of popular sunscreens was among the findings of the study.
  MDedge News, December 09, 2022
• Laser Pioneer Reflects on the Future of Robots in Dermatology A Mohs surgery robot with image-guided laser ablation would 'launch a sea change in the whole field of surgical oncology,' says Dr R. Rox Anderson.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Dermatologists Predict That Skin Cancer Cases Will Double Experts have drawn a correlation between the increased incidence of skin cancer and the increased intensity of UV radiation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• New FDA Approval Expands Use of Cemiplimab in NSCLC The new approval expands use of the PD-1 inhibitor cemiplimab (Libtayo) to patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) irrespective of PD-LI expression.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2022
• Image-Guided Superficial Radiation as First-line in Skin Cancer? For non-melanoma skin cancer, image-guided superficial radiation therapy offered comparable disease control to Mohs surgery. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, September 30, 2022