Melanoma is the rarest form of skin cancer, and the only one linked to new moles. Here, a dermatologist shares more common ...

This systematic review explores the treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma in solid organ transplant recipients, highlighting ...

According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, around 3,000 people in the United State are diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma every year. That equals around one case for every 130,000 people.

Merkel cell carcinoma falls within the category of nonmelanoma skin cancer and is a rare neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin, affecting about 2,500 people in the U.S. annually.

Skin cancer is a serious disease whose diagnosis is often delayed. It occurs due to abnormal growth of skin cells. It can be ...

Merkel cell carcinoma, or MCC, is so rare that newly diagnosed patients are often the first case their oncologist has ever treated. For many patients, understanding this aggressive skin cancer’s ...

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer nationwide each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as about 6.1 million adults are treated for basal cell and ...

This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health under award no. R01CA251729 and the National Cancer Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health, under award no ...

Merkel cell carcinoma is caused by expression of two viral genes: small and large tumor antigens, often referred to as small T and large T. However, it wasn’t until about 5 years after Merkel cell ...