Re: NICE approves combination antibody for advanced melanoma
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Source: BMJ Comments - February 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Melanoma Dose for Non Resectable Site of Disease.
I hardly see melanomas anymore. What dose would folks use in the scenario.
80 yo woman. Left calf melanoma s/p Sx in 2015. Local/regional recurrence (including inguinal nodal) in 2016 s/p Sx. Has since been on Keytruda/Tafinlar/Mekinist. Now with local progression s/p Sx with positive margin in July 2023. Further local progression on PET with a 1.5 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm in calf lesion with a SUV 12. No further sites of PET avid disease. Not a candidate for further surgery.
Edit: I...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - January 16, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: fiji128 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
WAMC and School List Help: 3.98, 516
I need help adding schools to my list:
cGPA: 3.98, sGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 516
Dual majored in Biochemistry and Economics
Utah resident
White female, bisexual, ex-Mormon
Research: melanoma lab research (3775 hours, 2000 anticipated, 3rd author on upcoming pub, abstract + poster presentation national conference)
biochemistry lab research (500 hours, university poster presentation, secured university grant funding)
Patient care: CNA (3100, 200...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - August 18, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Biochemily Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Reapplying
and the only difference is volunteering at a free clinic, a year more of emt experience, and two first author publications regarding surgical management of melanoma patients. Would these be big enough improvement to justify reapplying? Not sure how substantial pubs are to medschools. Also, 520 mcat 3.89 gpa (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - January 27, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: 6'0 OGFLYERCI Tags: Re-Applicants Source Type: forums
How closely does medical research have to align with chosen specialty like dermatology? Basic Science vs Clinical Research
Was recommended to post this here to run by actual dermatologists!
Current med student here looking at potential research mentors. I'm exploring the dermatology field and am in talks with a few potential mentors. There is one clinical research project with a mentor/fellow about melanoma. However, their research kind of delves far more into the organ metastasis of melanoma and really less about the skin side of melanoma. On the other hand, I have an offer from a dermatology professor with a...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 10, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DefNotaGOAT Tags: Dermatology Source Type: forums
How closely does medical research have to align with chosen specialty like dermatology?
Med student here looking at potential research mentors. I'm exploring the dermatology field and am in talks with one mentor about melanoma. However, their research kind of delves far more into the brain metastasis of melanoma and really less about the skin side of melanoma. Of course, I will have to think about whether I'm truly interested in their research because I feel like nothing is worse than doing research that I'm not truly interested in, unless it's not finding a research mentor at...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 9, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: DefNotaGOAT Tags: Medical Students (MD) Source Type: forums
Bempegaldesleukin (BEMPEG/NKTR-214)
Has anyone heard of this? Really interesting mechanism. Came across it from here.
https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.21.00675
PURPOSE
Therapies that produce deep and durable responses in patients with metastatic melanoma are needed. This phase II cohort from the international, single-arm PIVOT-02 study evaluated the CD122-preferential interleukin-2 pathway agonist bempegaldesleukin (BEMPEG) plus nivolumab (NIVO) in first-line metastatic melanoma.
METHODS
A total of 41...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - September 28, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: fiji128 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Anyone here does Vet Radonc?
I happened to see this job ad online.
I will copy and paste here...
Anyone here does vet radonc?
PS: I used to know some people from the 1980's that did vet on the weekend (canine melanoma, soft-tissue sarcoma in dogs etc.)...
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The Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, invites applications for two full-time, renewable faculty appointments in Radiation Oncology. The positions are available at the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 19, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Radonc90 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Uveal melanoma post enucleation
Dear colleagues,
I would appreciate your advice for this patient..
70 female, good performance status
Had enucleation for uveal melanoma - epithelioid, 18mm, 2mm thick, diffusely and widely invasive, optic nerve margin very close.
Referred for adjuvant RT - what dose, fractionation and modality would you recommend?
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Source: Student Doctor Network - June 9, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Treat Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Non-invasive melanoma testing?
I'm not a dermatologist so I'm asking if any of you know if this new non-invasive melanoma testing will be adopted widely? Or would there be initial resistance to this as it would reduce the number of biopsies performed?
DermTech Pigmented Lesion Assay (PLA) to Enrich Melanoma Positivity Nearly Five-Fold in Biopsied Lesions: Findings from a Large US Registry
DermTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMTK) (“DermTech”), a leader in precision dermatology enabled by a non-invasive skin genomics platform, announced today that S
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 6, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: wamcp Tags: Dermatology Source Type: forums
Insurance fun
Just got a denial for SBRT or even IMRT for a patient with a history of prostate cancer presenting with a single painful met to T5. No other sites of disease. On its face, I would say I am not surprised but the physician doing the peer-to-peer went on to tell me they only approve SBRT or IMRT for isolated bone mets for breast, lung, or melanoma but not prostate. Are they flipping coins to decide what level of evidence is enough? So frustrating. I don't know about anyone else but the number...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - June 16, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: ramsesthenice Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Re: When to suspect a non-melanoma skin cancer
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: When to suspect a non-melanoma skin cancer. Is pain really a symptom of cancer?
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
DermRads
Now Available at Dermatology Specialists of Mississippi in Biloxi
Biloxi, MS – Dermatology Specialists of Mississippi is now offering Superficial Radiation Therapy (SRT) as a treatment option for patients with non-melanoma skin cancer. This advanced technology is offered in less than 1% of dermatology clinics and has a 95%+ cure rate for non-melanoma skin cancer. There are four million new cases of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed in the United States each year...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - November 27, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: jkdoctor Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
punctate brain mets
Saw asymptomatic melanoma pt with several 1-2cm brain mets and 8-9 punctate lesions. In the past I used to treat everything, but I am really considering treating just the "overt" disease and closely following the rest. Would be interested to know how others are approaching this. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - May 6, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: nkmiami Source Type: forums
