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?A cure for skin cancer,? trumpets The Mail on Sunday?s front page, with the announcement of a ?historic breakthrough as 'spectacular' drugs bring hope to thousands?.
The Mail?s story was prompted by results discussed at the European Cancer Congress. The news is based on a ?pooling? of longer-term data from trials in which people with advanced melanoma (where the cancer has spread to other parts of the body) received the new drug ipilimumab.
Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. The main treatment for early stage melanoma is surgery, but if it spreads to other parts of the body (becomes advanced) treating it is difficult, and treatments have tended to only slow the cancer?s growth rather than stop it.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/09September/Pages/More-data-on-survival-with-new-skin-cancer-drug.aspx
The Mail?s story was prompted by results discussed at the European Cancer Congress. The news is based on a ?pooling? of longer-term data from trials in which people with advanced melanoma (where the cancer has spread to other parts of the body) received the new drug ipilimumab.
Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. The main treatment for early stage melanoma is surgery, but if it spreads to other parts of the body (becomes advanced) treating it is difficult, and treatments have tended to only slow the cancer?s growth rather than stop it.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/09September/Pages/More-data-on-survival-with-new-skin-cancer-drug.aspx