[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="52814" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_empty_space height="22px"][vc_column_text css=""]Melanoma is the deadliest skin cancer as it can quickly spread to other organs and become an untreatable disease. New treatment options such as immunotherapy may help control some patients’ melanoma metastasis, but in most cases, metastatic melanoma still causes the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="48283" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The prevalence of skin cancer is rising at an alarming rate, with melanoma being the deadliest. Melanoma is renowned for quickly spreading to other organs (or metastasizing), drastically decreasing the likelihood of survival. Being able to stop the spread of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="47798" img_size="full"][vc_column_text css=""]Ocular melanoma or uveal melanoma is the most common tumor of eyes in adults. Every year, hundreds of people are diagnosed with this disease. For decades, no effective therapy for the disease existed. Many ocular melanoma patients, thus, have to be treated...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="44195" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="22px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Learning that cancer has spread, or metastasized, used to be the moment people lost hope. To know that cancer had grown and infected other healthy parts of the body sent shivers down the spines of both doctors and patients alike. Thankfully, dedicated...
National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) fellow Dr. Paul Fisher has been instrumental in NFCR’s mission to combat metastasis, a major cause of cancer morbidity. He has dedicated his career to this mission and recently published a game-changing study that may alter the lives of many – especially those...
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