Australian researchers find two ways to stop melanoma from spreading and killing patients

[canetoad]

Source: The Age

BREAKING
September 11 2017 - 9:16AM

Doctors battling melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – may soon get new weapons, which researchers say can stop the disease from spreading and killing their patients.

In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the Melanoma Institute Australia announced they had successfully trialled a combination of new treatments to prevent melanoma from spreading and metastasising to distant organs.

"Our ultimate goal of making melanoma a chronic rather than a terminal illness is now so much closer to being achieved," Georgina Long, the institute's conjoint medical director, said.

About 14,000 people in Australia will be diagnosed with melanoma this year and about 1800 are expected to die from it.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/australian-researchers-discover-two-ways-to-stop-melanoma-from-spreading-and-killing-patients-20170905-gybboo.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Drumpf's wife kills people?

[canetoad]

2. LOL, I thought something

Similar when reading the headline.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. ROFL!

[rurallib]

3. huge - I hope it works

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Cancer was a frustrating illness for my family

You knew immunotherapy was the ultimate, but no one knew how to turn it on. Now we have more options due to SCIENCE!!!!!

[bluescribbler]

5. Great news

My wife's oncologist was one of the lead researchers for one of the immunotherapy drugs, ipilimumab, mentioned in the article. Unfortunately, her case had already progressed beyond the point where she would have been eligible for the clinical trial. By the time, it had spread to her lungs and brain. She ended her battle in November, 2009.

[Permanut]

6. The medical advances are extraordinary..

but we'd like to see them come along sooner. Thanks for sharing, bluescribbler. Lost a cousin years ago at age 42 to this evil disease.

[area51]

12. I'm so sorry for your loss. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

8. It's a pity we have to look to other nations

For advances in science. America has been reduced to looking to charlatans and televangelists encouraging people to fill their heads with magical thinking - and paying for the pleasure.

[Tikki]

9. Thankful one of my favorite athletes was able to take advantage of these treatments.

'It Eats Cancer Cells': Jarryd Roughead's Melanoma Treatment Explained

This is cutting edge medical treatment.
01/06/2016 8:02 AM AEST | Updated 15/07/2016 12:53 PM AEST
Anthony Sharwood

Immunotherapy. Nope, we'd never heard of it either.

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are two well known forms of cancer treatment. But immunotherapy? What exactly is that?

The Huffington Post Australia contacted Cancer Council Australia to learn more about the revolutionary treatment which Hawthorn star Jarryd Roughead is set to undergo to tackle his melanoma.

We spoke to Cancer Council CEO, Professor Sanchia Aranda, who explained that it's a relatively new treatment which has been worked on for decades by both Australian and international experts. But only recently has it come into common usage.
Generally immunotherapy is the use of medicines in a way that stimulates your own immune system to recognise and destroy cancer cells," Aranda explained.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/05/31/it-eats-cancer-cells-jarryd-rougheads-melanoma-treatment-exp_a_21386344/

Tikki

[canetoad]

10. Roughie eh?

Didn't know he used this treatment. Good stuff.

[Tikki]

11. Last I read he is still cancer free now.

And, hopefully, ready for a new Season.

Tikki