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2020 Melanoma Mortality Rates Decreasing Despite Ongoing Increase in Incidence

This year, more than 100,00 people are estimated to be diagnosed with invasive melanoma in the United States - continuing a 30-year trend of increasing incidence (new cases). In contrast, melanoma mortality rates continue to decline highlighting impact of transformational advances in melanoma treatment science.
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Brown Skin Too: If You Have Skin, You Can Get Skin Cancer

While pervasive, the myth that people of color don’t need to worry about skin cancer, is entirely untrue. And while the rates of skin cancer among people of color are lower than rates for people with lighter skin, low risk doesn’t mean no risk.
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Raising the Bar: MRA’s 2018-2019 Annual Report

Inch by inch, year by year, and breakthrough by breakthrough, the melanoma field has made unprecedented progress that has transformed the way melanoma is diagnosed and treated. For many patients this progress is rewriting the book about what it means to face melanoma. However, there is still more to do.
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Fighting For Her Life with a Clinical trial

Colleen Wittoesch was a regular volunteer at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She came to the hospital every week to help out and spend time with patients and families in the melanoma clinic for going on seven years. Little did she know that in 2016 she too would walk through the clinic doors as a patient.
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Living Life With Melanoma

Ken has lived with and in the shadow of melanoma since 1995, but he isn’t your typical patient and he hasn’t been cured of melanoma. He also doesn’t like being called a survivor. Ken is living with melanoma.
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01/08/2020 – 2020 Melanoma Mortality Rates Decreasing Despite Ongoing Increase in Incidence

12/19/2019 – Leading Melanoma Organizations Applaud Congress for Supporting $20 million for Defense-Funded Melanoma Research

11/13/2019 – Approaches to Neoadjuvant Treatment in Melanoma: A Public Workshop Organized by the FDA and MRA

11/08/2019 – Mutations and Melanoma

11/05/2019 – Melanoma Research Alliance Announces Almost $20 Million in New Funding to Support Melanoma Research Program

MRA would like to thank our 2019 Retreat Sponsors