Pembrolizumab was associated with high response rates in surgically unresectable advanced desmoplastic melanoma.

Pembrolizumab showed an 89% objective response rate in unresectable desmoplastic melanoma, with a 37% complete response rate.

A research team co-led by UCLA investigators has found that pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug that helps the immune system ...

Among a cohort of 27 patients with metastatic desmoplastic melanoma -- a deeply invasive, rare melanoma subtype with a high tumor mutation burden -- nine achieved a complete response to the single ...

This article highlights recent research on breast cancer, lung cancer, melanoma, head and neck cancer, and hematologic malignancies.

Tumors from desmoplastic melanoma, a rare cancer most commonly found on the head or neck, can often be shrunk significantly before surgery by an immunotherapy known as PD-1 blockade, a result that ...

Desmoplastic melanoma is a rare subtype of melanoma that is commonly found on sun-exposed areas, such as the head and neck, and usually seen in older patients. Treatment is difficult because these ...

Desmoplastic melanoma, an often deeply invasive disease occurring in older adults, showed a uniquely favorable response to neoadjuvant pembrolizumab in this small study.

TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 10, 2018) - Desmoplastic melanoma is a rare subtype of melanoma that is commonly found on sun-exposed areas, such as the head and neck, and usually seen in older patients.

Dermoscopy was useful in the evaluation of clinically equivocal lesions or lesions with benign appearance during desmoplastic melanoma diagnosis, according to study results.In a retrospective case ...

If you’d asked him more than a decade ago, Doug never would have guessed he’d make it into his fifties, preparing to welcome his seventh grandchild into the world. In 2006, he was diagnosed with an ...

As the authors reported in their case study in JAMA Dermatology, the patient noted that 3 weeks earlier a desmoplastic melanoma (Breslow thickness of 1 mm) had been excised with 1-cm margins and ...