Current Trends of Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Cutaneous Melanoma: A Review.

ABSTRACT: Cutaneous melanoma remains a severe public health threat, with annual incidence increasing slowly but steadily over 4 decades. While early-stage melanomas can typically be treated with complete surgical excision with favorable results, the development of metastatic cancer, which is related to a lower survival rate, is linked to the primary tumor's rising stage and other high-risk features. Even though the first discoveries of an immunological anti-tumor response were published about a century ago, immunotherapy has only been a feasible therapeutic option for cutaneous melanoma in the last 30 years. Nonetheless, for the treatment of various cancers, including metastatic melanoma, the area of cancer immunotherapy has made significant progress in the last decade. As a result, melanoma continu

SUBMITTER: Naik PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8484371 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature