FDA Approves New Drug for Advanced Melanoma

Friday, March 25, 2011 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

In the first time in more than a decade, the U-S Food and Drug administration gave the okay to a new cancer drug that is giving hope to patients with advanced melanoma. The disease is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Until now, there were few treatment options for patients once melanoma spread to other areas of the body.

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