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Treatment for late stage skin cancer works with body’s immune system
Working with the body’s immune system in the battle against Melanoma. Cancer research is moving more into what’s called Immuno-oncology.
Patients like Mary Mannion are benefiting.
Mary’s skin cancer was first detected on her leg.
“I think it’s right here,” as she points to a faint scar, “I had a mole that changed shape, size, color.”
Stage-four Melanoma.Surgeons removed it and Mary underwent targeted therapy. Eleven years later, the cancer came back.
She says, “The Melanoma had metastasized here,” pointing to her chest area.
Most Melanomas start on the skin says Mary’s doctor.
“The problem is those cells can travel through the blood stream to other parts of the body,” says Dr. Mario Sznol at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven.
Source: WTNH News Channel 8