Read all the latest updates on our charity, clinical advances in melanoma treatment, patient stories, fundraising and events.
With the beginning of a new year, we start planning and thinking about what we want to achieve in the months ahead. If you're looking for 2023 challenge why not sign up for The Great North Run or The Royal Parks Half Marathon and help raise vital funds for Melanoma Focus.
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Melanoma Focus have been invited by the Scottish Medicines Consortium to provide patient feedback to support the review of pembrolizumab in stage 2B and 2C melanoma in Scotland. This treatment has already been approved for this indication by NICE [TA837] and published in October 2022.
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We are delighted for our patron, Sir Chris Bryant MP who has recently been awarded a Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list in recognition of his political and public service.
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Melanoma Focus are thrilled to support and host the Melanoma Patient Conference, supporting the Founder and Organiser, Imogen Cheese. Registration for this event is now open!
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We are delighted to share that Melanoma Focus is open to research applications for patient benefit. Melanoma Focus is committed to regularly funding, supporting and promoting research.
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This year Melanoma Focus celebrated its 10 year anniversary!We feel proud of all the things that we achieved this year in marking this milestone and look forward to continuing to shape a better future for the melanoma community in 2023. Watch our Year in Review!
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The OPTIC study has just opened to recruitment, and researchers want to interview patients in groups to find out their opinion about how immunotherapy treatment is given.
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This study is now closed. Cerner Enviza, an independent research agency, is collaborating with a sponsoring pharmaceutical company, with the assistance of Melanoma Focus and Global Patients, to conduct an online research to collect the opinion of patients with stage 2, 3 or 4 melanoma about the potential benefits and risks related to melanoma treatments.
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We have recently held our 10 year anniversary healthcare professional meeting organised by Professor Paul Lorigan at the Royal College of Physicians; our first face-to-face healthcare professional meeting in 3 years and the atmosphere was buzzing!
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We would like to say a very big thank you to Llangollen Leisure Centre who have recently organized a 12-hour rowathon in memory of their dear friend, James Rush.
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In October 2021, Olivia sadly lost her battle to melanoma. Her mother Margaret, her sister Joanne and her family members wanted to honor Olivia’s memory, so to mark the one-year anniversary of Olivia’s passing they organised a coffee morning.
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This report launched in October 2022 builds on the 2021 National Skin Cancer Specialist Nurse Census supported by Melanoma Focus and BASCSN (British Association of Skin Cancer Specialist Nurses), with additional insights from a skin cancer nurse focus group and a patient survey.
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