Immunotherapy treatment for melanoma
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that is often mistaken for benign skin moles or beauty marks, but leaving it untreated can be dangerous, as it is the skin cancer with the highest mortality rate. One method to treat melanoma is immunotherapy, which ‘trains’ the immune system to recognise and destroy cancer cells. In this article, a consultant medical oncologist discusses how melanoma develops, and which types of immunotherapy are used to combat the cancer.
