Holy, do you know how hard I worked to get that alliteration to work for y’all? I’m still not 100% happy with it; but it’s the best you’re going to get on a Friday. Anyway, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Center in Florida identified RNA molecules in melanoma that seem to… Read more »
Melanoma, when it metastasizes, has a high likelihood of spreading to vital organs such as the brain. Although treatments have gotten better for melanoma patients overall, because of the increase in melanoma rates and treatments to prolong the lifespans of melanoma patients, it also means that now there are more diagnoses of melanoma-involved brain metastases. Obviously, this prospect is a… Read more »
Those of us not blessed with a high-octane metabolism already know the battle with fat cells is a miserable trench-warfare slog through the produce aisle. But new research from Tel Aviv University gives us even more reason to be suspicious of those fat cells. Apparently, they are implicated in the transition that surface-level melanoma cells undergo when they metastasize. The… Read more »
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 »
Ok, as I was typing that title, I was thinking to myself, didn’t I got to high school with Clark Breslow? But actually, his first name is Nate. Hopefully he never needs to read a blog about melanoma, but if he does – what’s up dude? Still got your skateboard? Anyway, for those of you that actually come to this… Read more »
In my previous post, I talked about the new changes to the guidelines for diagnosing and treating melanoma. One of the changes affects the definitions of melanoma stages. But I realized as I was talking about those changes that some people may not know what all of those letters and numbers mean. To complicate matters further, there are actually a… Read more »
I’ve had this tab open on my browser for some time, waiting for the day that my headache would subside enough for me to write. But seeing as I will likely have a permanent headache for the foreseeable future (and yes, I did go to a doctor and they told me basically that it was all in my head –… Read more »
I really wanted to title this post “It’s a Laser Beam, Bozo” because Real Genius is one of my very all-time favorite movies with some obscure-but-quotable lines and one very hot Val Kilmer. But I didn’t want you to think I was calling you a bozo so you got the boring title instead. Anyway, lasers can be employed for all… Read more »
The biodiversity of this planet is in peril; in fact some biologists state we’re in the midst of an extinction event. The fact of the matter is the number of species on this planet is decreasing so rapidly that soon, all that will be left are humans, our livestock, mosquitoes, cockroaches, a billion strains of viruses, and ornamental lawn grasses…. Read more »
No one likes to admit that they’re doing something wrong. God knows, I used to be the poster child for saying, “well it’s wrong only if you look at it that way (i.e. probably the correct way but I’ll be damned if I say otherwise)”. I think most self-aware people recognize that as you have more and more life experience,… Read more »