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  • Insurers and Screening Despite the importance of early detection, insurers may not cover screening because the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government advisory body, says there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of harms and benefits of whole-body skin-cancer screenings by a dermatologist.

    Reckoning With the Sun Laura Landro 2011

  • Chief Executive Severin Schwan said recent strong trial results for experimental skin-cancer drug RG7204 should help Roche win regulatory approval this year.

    EU Backs Avastin for Breast Cancer Goran Mijuk 2011

  • Roche's recent drug-development success has also been mixed, with approvals in skin-cancer drugs but delays in diabetes drugs and a discontinued rheumatoid-arthritis treatment.

    No Illumina-tion for Roche Hester Plumridge 2012

  • After a lifetime in the sun and two skin-cancer surgeries, Ms. Landsberg says she is being more careful about exposure, taking extra care with sunscreen, and urging her husband to do the same after he had a basal cell carcinoma on his nose.

    Reckoning With the Sun Laura Landro 2011

  • Dr. Moy says doctors and patients should be alert to the so-called ABCDE's of skin-cancer detection: moles or lesions that are asymmetrical in shape, have borders that are uneven, display a variety of colors , are larger in diameter than a pencil eraser, and are evolving or showing new symptoms such as bleeding or itching.

    Reckoning With the Sun Laura Landro 2011

  • The fast approval of Zelboraf could be beaten with another skin-cancer drug from Roche, called vismodegib, which it developed with U.S. biotech Curis Inc.

    For Some, Crisis Is Good Medicine Goran Mijuk 2011

  • The FDA earlier this month approved Zelboraf, a skin-cancer treatment from Roche and Daiichi Sankyo Co. that shrunk the tumors of many patients with a mutant gene.

    Pfizer's Future: A Niche Blockbuster Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • Last week, the FDA approved a skin-cancer drug from Roche Holding AG and Daiichi Sankyo Co., called Zelboraf, that also targets changes at the molecular level among patients identified by a medical test.

    FDA Approves Pfizer Lung-Cancer Drug Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • Roche's skin-cancer drug Zelboraf, which the cancer specialist developed in collaboration with U.S. biotech Plexxikon Inc., a unit of Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo Co., came to the market in August, much earlier than expected.

    For Some, Crisis Is Good Medicine Goran Mijuk 2011

  • Dermatology groups do offer free skin-cancer screenings around the country.

    Reckoning With the Sun Laura Landro 2011

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