Everywhere in the world, people raise funds to cure diseases like cancer, but it doesn't seem like any progress is being made.
Melanoma Skin Cancer Treatment Improves with New Drug Ipilimumab June 07, 2010, 11:06 am
The survival time of patients battling melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, improved by 68 percent in a recent study involving ipilimumab, a new drug designed to fight infection.
According to Timothy Turnham, Executive Director of the Melanoma Research Foundation, the last time a drug was approved in the treatment of melanoma was 12 years ago, and "finding another drug that is going to have an impact, and even a bigger impact than what's out there now, is a major improvement for patients."
