Distant Metastasis

Younger patients and those with T1b melanomas on the face, ear or scalp should undergo sentinel lymph node biopsies, according to a study.

Adjuvant treatment with messenger RNA in combination with Keytruda produced meaningful improvement in patients with resected high-risk melanoma, according to findings from a phase 2b study.

Patients with metastatic basal cell carcinoma experiencing distant organ involvement have worse outcomes than patients with nodal involvement, according to a study.

Black women appeared nearly six times more likely than white women to develop distant metastases after breast cancer diagnosis, according to study results presented during the virtual ASCO Annual Meeting.