Skin Cancer: Drug trials successful in stopping melanoma

Patients with melanoma have been given new hope by ground breaking Australian research that could halve the mortality rate from the cancer. 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 treatments to prevent melanoma from spreading. ‘‘Our ultimate goal of making melanoma a chronic rather than a terminal illness is now so much closer to being achieved,’’ the institute’s conjoint medical director Georgina Long said.

Adelaide Advertiser – online here, 12/09/2017, Page 8; Age, 12/09/2017, Page 3; Australian Financial Review, 12/09/2017, Page 6; Courier Mail, 12/09/2017, Page 12; Daily Telegraph, 12/09/2017, Page 8; Hobart Mercury, 12/09/2017, Page 4; Sydney Morning Herald, 12/09/2017, Page 12

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