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Valerie Yang Recognizes NUS Students for Research on Mucosal Melanoma and Psychological Outcomes in Rare Cancers

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Jun 29, 2025, 04:54

Valerie Yang Recognizes NUS Students for Research on Mucosal Melanoma and Psychological Outcomes in Rare Cancers

Valerie Yang, Senior Medical Oncologist at OncoCare Cancer Centre, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Been meaning to say how proud I am of our medical undergraduate students for each winning their individual Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher prizes from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Chun En Yau won this for our work in mucosal melanoma evaluating therapeutic efficacy of treatments used in this rarer subset of melanomas that exhibit a different biology from the more common cutaneous melanomas. Immune check point inhibitors are still the most effective.

Chen Ee Low won this for our work across nearly 60,000 rare cancer patients, showing that psychological outcomes like depression, anxiety and suicide are exceedingly poor. Much more needs to be done!

Both papers were published in eClinical Medicine – The Lancet Discovery Science The Lancet Group. We had a fantastic time with excellent editors and it was good fun working together! Thank you for the opportunity.”

Title: Psychological outcomes in patients with rare cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors: Chen Ee Lowa, Sean Lokea, Ga Eun Panga, Ben Sima, Valerie Shiwen Yang

Title: Effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors and other treatment modalities in patients with advanced mucosal melanomas: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

Authors: Andrea York Tiang Teo, Chun En Yau, Chen Ee Low, Jarett Vanz-Brian Pereira, Julia Yu Xin Ng, Tse Kiat Soong, Jack Yu Tung Lo, Valerie Shiwen Yang

Valerie Yang Recognizes NUS Students for Research on Mucosal Melanoma and Psychological Outcomes in Rare Cancers

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