Tag Archives: BRAF mutant melanoma

Hot or Not – Your Melanoma, That Is

Unless this is your first time to this blog (and if so, hi; take a look around and ignore the sarcasm long enough to realize I am actually a nice person), you know that I use a lot of pixels to chat about immunotherapy. What you may not know (I honestly didn’t), is that apparently there’s a classification for melanomas… Read more »

Can a Compound “Cure” Cancer?

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I got all alliterative on the title there… but I’m really excited to share a story I read about research that uses a compound treatment to target melanoma cells but spares the healthy skin cells. The research was led by two scientists working out of Penn State College of Medicine and was recently published in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. As noted… Read more »