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Overview On September 11, 2017 in Seattle, over 260 patients, family members, clinicians, scientists, and trainees from across the United States gathered for the 12th annual Merkel cell carcinoma Dinner Meeting. They enjoyed a lovely buffet dinner, music, lab tours and a presentation on the statu...
Read more →We are passing along information that may be of interest to some MCC patients and families… The Seattle MCC Support Group will host a special facilitated discussion on September 11 prior to the Nghiem Merkel Dinner Meeting. This discussion session is entitled: "GRIEF AND GRATTITUDE" SEPTE...
Read more →On December 12, 2016, the opening celebration of the Bezos family Immunotherapy Clinic will be launched at FHCRC. Merkel cell carcinoma work to be featured as Dr. Nghiem presents as one of the inaugural speakers at the immunotherapy symposium.
Read more →On November 3rd, 2016, Dr Nghiem gave a talk in the UW Medicine Grand Rounds Lecture Series. This talk was targeted to physicians and scientists focusing on improved management of MCC:
Read more →Dr Nghiem presents on recent progress in understanding and improving the immune response against MCC at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s IIRC (Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center) Seminar Series. (Of note, slides become visible after the first five minutes or so of the presentatio...
Read more →On September 12, 2016 in Seattle, over 260 patients, family members, clinicians, scientists, and trainees from across the United States gathered for the 11th annual Merkel cell carcinoma Dinner Meeting. They enjoyed a lovely buffet dinner, music, lab tours and a presentation on the status of researc...
Read more →On September 14, 2015 in Seattle, over 220 patients, family members, clinicians, scientists, and trainees from across the United States gathered for the 10th annual Merkel cell carcinoma Dinner Meeting. They enjoyed a lovely buffet dinner, music, lab tours and a presentation on the status of researc...
Read more →On September 8, 2014 in Seattle, over 200 patients, family members, clinicians, scientists, and trainees from across the United States gathered for the 10th annual Merkel cell carcinoma Dinner Meeting. They enjoyed a lovely buffet dinner, music, lab tours and a presentation on the status of research...
Read more →Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a polyomavirus-associated skin cancer with a higher diseaseassociated mortality (~46%) than melanoma (~15%) and an increasing incidence of ~1600 cases/year in the US. Management is challenging because therapy is different in nature than for other skin malignancies and ...
Read more →Due to the success of last year's tournament, devoted to fundraising for Merkel cell carcinoma research, the friends and family of Milton R. Tarbox organized a second golf tournament, which occurred on a beautiful day in Rhode Island, August 13, 2012, to remember this special man. To date, more than...
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