In Plain English: Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte (“TIL”) Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Note: We are rerunning an update on this TIL therapy article that originally ran…
04/11/2024
In Plain English: Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte (“TIL”) Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Note: We are rerunning an update on this TIL therapy article that originally ran…
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09/07/2023
In Plain English—Neoadjuvant Therapy for Melanoma, and How We Got Here
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Understanding the principles adjuvant therapy for adult cancers so we can apply this understanding…
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11/16/2022
In Plain English: Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte (“TIL”) Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Background—Immunotherapy of melanoma The explosion of immunotherapy over the past decade has revolutionized the…
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05/25/2022
Part II In Plain English: When and How Melanoma Spreads to the Brain, and How it is Treated
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Background about melanoma and other malignancies involving the brain Of all the kinds of…
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05/25/2022
Part I In Plain English—When, How, and Where Melanoma Spreads
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO The vast majority of people diagnosed with cutaneous melanoma are cured by one or…
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01/27/2022
In Plain English: The Results of DreamSeq
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Patients with advanced melanoma—spread to other organs or grown too large in the lymph…
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09/27/2021
Vaccines 2021—Major Advances in Preventing Death from Infection and Malignancy
By Kim Margolin, M.D., FACP, FASCO Vaccine background and brief history The word “vaccine” comes from the Latin word vacca…
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09/24/2021
What is Translational Medicine?
By Maria Libera Ascierto, MS, PhD Associate Professor Translational Cancer Immunology Director “The Rosalie and Harold R Brown Cancer Immunotherapy”…
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07/29/2021
In Plain English—June 2021 News from ASCO, the American Society of Clinical Oncology
By Kim Margolin, M.D. You might have seen the term ASCO as you’ve scrolled through melanoma websites or research documents…
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03/08/2021
In Plain English: What are Acral Melanomas and How are They Similar to and Different from Common Cutaneous Melanomas?
By Kim Margolin, M.D. The definition of “acral” is “topmost” or “highest,” and this term refers to a body part…
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