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Your Cancer Game Plan

Your Cancer Game Plan is a resource for people with cancer and their loved ones focused on the emotional, health, and communication challenges of living with cancer. The online resource provides unique content including communication tips, coping strategies, and health and nutritional information, to help those with cancer and their caregivers take an active role in developing a “game plan” to support their journey.

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Request for Proposals Now Open

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) announces a Request for Proposals (RFP) soliciting high-impact pre-clinical, translational, and early clinical research from scientists and clinicians around the world. The RFP calls for ideas that have the potential to lead to near-term clinical application in melanoma prevention, detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment.

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Doubling Down: Brandon Barniea Bets Big on Combination Therapy

Brandon Barniea didn’t believe he needed to visit doctors. The athletic 35-year-old had always been healthy. So, when he found what felt like “beads” in his neck, reality came crashing in; following a biopsy, he was diagnosed first with stage III melanoma in August 2015 and later that year it progressed to stage IV.

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Loreal L’Oreal Paris USA-MRA Team Scientists shed light on how melanoma spreads

MRA is extremely proud of the 289 investigators we have funded over the last decade and the exciting advances they have made toward ending suffering and death due to melanoma. While we can never highlight all of them at one time, we’re excited in this blog to highlight the work of the L’Oreal Paris USA sponsored MRA Team award.