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The Sydney-based Melanoma Institute Australia conducted 2 drug trials of new treatments and have proved it successful in preventing melanoma spreading in stage three patients whose tumours had been surgically removed.
The researchers conducted two 12-month trials, one immunotherapy-based and the other with targeted therapies.
Institute claims that their aim is to make melanoma a chronic rather than a terminal illness.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
