Melanoma treatment triples life expectancy

By Harriet Alexander
Updated September 7 2014 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
You have to smile: Lydia Kassouaa's melanoma has disappeared after she took part in a trial of drugs that target the genetic flaws that cause cancer to grow. Photo: James Alcock
You have to smile: Lydia Kassouaa's melanoma has disappeared after she took part in a trial of drugs that target the genetic flaws that cause cancer to grow. Photo: James Alcock

Melanoma has gone from being Australia's national shame to the poster child of cancer treatment in less than half a decade, as new ways of attacking cancer have been developed.

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