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Virgen Macarena Hospital promotes an ambitious national clinical trial on skin cancer

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The melanoma It occurs in ten patients per one hundred thousand inhabitants, so that we speak of 900 new cases each year throughout Andalusia and about 200 in the province of Seville.Between 20 and 30 percent of them will have metastases in the lymph nodes and the normal thing is that the patient has a very high survival after the surgery that proceeds to its removal. However, even if he is not going to die from melanoma, the complications of radical surgery greatly deteriorate the quality of life of these patients. The current paradigm in the treatment of any type of cancer is to guarantee not only a high survival rate but also a good quality.life.

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