Drug offers hope to skin cancer patients

West Australian Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

In good news for Australian skin cancer patients, a new drug to treat advanced skin cancer, or metastatic melanoma, has been shown to nearly double average survival time in a study of more than 130 patients, researchers say.Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with two in three Australians being diagnosed with skin ca...

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