In a prospective study of patients with stages I-III Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), seropositivity for rising polyomavirus oncoprotein antibody titers conferred a 58% risk for recurrence at 12 months, ...

Comparative of PD-L1 expression on live single circulating tumor cells with PD-L1 in tumor tissue assessed by immunohistochemistry in advanced NSCLC patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...

Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) and ambient ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure account for most Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) cases in the United States. Researchers evaluated 38,020 MCC cases (38% ...

Merkel cell polyomavirus is one of seven viruses known to cause cancer in humans. Infection with this virus is asymptomatic, but, rarely, it can lead to the development of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), ...

BOSTON & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affini-T Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company unlocking the power of T cells against oncogenic driver mutations, today announced that the clinical strategy ...

Most often we think about cancer as developing from cells that acquire cancer-driving mutations, but there’s a subset of cancers driven by another culprit: viruses. To date, “seven human viruses have ...

The 31-gene expression profile as a guide to better risk-aligned care decisions for patients with stage I–III cutaneous melanoma: An NCI-SEER analysis. Hazard ratios for subsequent MCC clinical ...

Scientists behind a new type of immunotherapy are demonstrating significant effects in laboratory experiments in cell samples from patients with the aggressive form of skin cancer, Merkel cell ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 65.1% and 63.8% of Merkel cell carcinoma cases were attributed to ambient ultraviolet radiation exposure and ...

A case-control study found that patients with early-onset Merkel cell carcinoma exhibited genetic variations associated with the development of their disease. Genetic testing should be recommended for ...