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Article: Melanoma Research Foundation Leads Unprecedented Collaboration for Melanoma Research.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 17, 2009
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For more than a decade, there have been no new therapies that have improved survival rates for patients with advanced melanoma. Today, at the 6th International Melanoma Congress for the Society for Melanoma Research, the Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) announced a novel collaboration between the research community and pharmaceutical companies that will pool knowledge and resources to generate new breakthroughs in treatment (see also Melanoma).
"As a community, we have hit a wall. We are fed up with melanoma patients having so few treatment options to battle their disease. It's time to change course, get creative and accelerate the development of new ...