Sentinel lymph node dissection has really changed the way that we manage breast cancer, melanoma.

And very shortly after my birth, my parents found out I had a condition called ocular albinism.

Yet when it came to a disease like diabetes that kills Americans eight times more frequently than melanoma,

The highest rate is that of trachea cancer, bronchitis and lung cancer, followed by skin cancers (without melanoma), breast cancer and stomach cancer.

A new study led by Julius Nelson of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, turned to the use of Greenland shark's ocular lens for radioactive carbon dating.

There was a time when we failed to negotiate the intra ocular lens prices to be at affordable levels, so we set up a manufacturing unit.

Excluding non melanoma skin cancers, there were 88,398 new cancer cases (337.6 per 100,000 ) and 36,319 deaths due to cancer in Australia (127.3 per 100,000 ) in 2001.

(viii) Regular surveillance of ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency in vulnerable groups (children, pregnant and lactating mothers), especially in the estate sector and urban slums, will be ensured.

The ophthalmologist who operated on her, however, concluded in his report that an ocular contusion with subsequent tearing might well have given rise to a detached retina a month after the accident.

Now Xu and I, on the other hand, were in a completely windowless black room not making any ocular movement that even remotely resembles an eye blink because our eyes were fixed onto a computer screen.

I was also doing cancer research, immune based therapies for melanoma, to be specific, and in that world I was actually taught to question everything, to challenge all assumptions and hold them to the highest possible scientific standards.

Last year, a record 61 drugs were introduced worldwide, compared with an annual average of 34 in the previous decade. More than 40 of these treatments were for rare or difficult to treat conditions, including hepatitis C, meningococcal B, and metastatic melanoma.

In females, breast cancer (11,791 cases, or 93.1 per 100,000 population ) is the most common registrable cancer, followed by colorectal cancer (5,883), melanoma (3,861) and lung cancer (2,891), in total, they account for 60 per cent of all registrable cancers in females.

But our dramatic progress in detecting and treating cancer has also led to growing awareness of the problem of tumor dormancy a patient appears to be cured, only to have the same cancer return years or even decades later. In breast cancer or melanoma, for example, recurrences 25 years after initial treatment have been reported.