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HWCOM researcher Charles Dimitroff and his lab team show their support by wearing black on Melanoma Monday, part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month.
What do sugars and carbohydrates have to do with it?
May 27, 2021 at 10:00am
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. More than 5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year. There are several types of skin cancer. Melanoma is the third most common and the deadliest because it tends to metastasize, spread to other parts of the body.
Charles Dimitroff, executive associate dean for research at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) has studied melanomas for 15 years, most recently at the Translational Glycobiology Institute at FIU (TGIF), where he serves as director. The institute focuses on studying glycans sugars or carbohydrates found in the surface of cells and their impact on cancer progression.