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LAG-3 Approved by FDA
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London examined how melanoma cells create tumors at secondary sites in the body. What they found could help in the development of treatments to stop the spread of melanoma.
Melanoma Risk Not As Obvious As Some Think
Researchers from QIMR Berghofer research in Queensland, Australia found that nearly 25% of people underestimate their risk for deadly melanomas, and those are the very people with the highest risk factors.
Study Reveals Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with Melanoma Have Higher Mortality Rates
Highlighting the importance of melanoma awareness, this study reveals that API are typically diagnosed when the cancer has progressed to its deadliest stages.
Eastern LI Hospital Foundation’s annual Golf Classic raises $134K, honors health care heroes
As the seriousness of the pandemic began to set in locally back in March, Jack and Maggie Biggane began to reconsider accepting a recent honor bestowed on their foundation.
The part-time Southold residents had been selected as the honorees for the 28th annual Eastern Long Island Hospital Foundation’s Golf Classic. Through the Mollie Biggane Melanoma Foundation — which the couple started in memory of their daughter, who died at the age of 20 in 2000 — they had worked in recent years to bring awareness and skin cancer prevention programs to Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital and across the North Fork…
