Scientists have discovered a specific molecular biomarker for malignant melanoma
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 14:23
in Health & Medicine
Melanoma is one of the types of cancer that poses the greatest challenge to researchers because it manifests itself in many ways, it contains a large number of mutations and displays high metastatic capacity. To date, clinicians mostly base their diagnosis on observation, such as by measuring thickness: a tumor depth of only two millimeters implied a poor prognosis.