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Your Skin Cancer Awareness Month Update 💛

April is National Cancer Prevention and Detection Month, a great time to step up your skin cancer early detection game.

Here are some easy ways to start: Set monthly calendar reminders for your skin self-exams and make an appointment with a dermatologist for your annual skin cancer screening.

Advanced Melanoma Progress Report

If you’re looking for some good news, you can find it in the fight against advanced skin cancers — and melanoma has led the way. Over the past 15 years, metastatic melanoma has gone from a likely death sentence to an often-curable disease.

Advanced Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers Progress Report

If you’re looking for some good news, you can find it in the fight against advanced skin cancers. While melanoma research led the way, reducing a likely death sentence to an often-curable disease, options for patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) have expanded, too.

Ask the Expert: Best Advice for a First-Time Skin Cancer Diagnosis?

You’ve just been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma. Now what? First, do not panic. You’re not alone, and you’re going to be OK. Skin cancer is very common — more common than all other forms of cancer combined. Here’s advice from our medical expert about what to do next.

Driving Detection to Save More Lives in 2025 and Beyond

Year after year, mile after mile, The Skin Cancer Foundation’s mobile free screening and education program, Destination Healthy Skin (DHS), has built a lifesaving legacy of bringing dermatologists to people in communities around the country, touching countless lives along the way.

How We Saved Destination Healthy Skin

In 2024, The Skin Cancer Foundation’s top priority was keeping our mobile skin cancer screening and education program, Destination Healthy Skin (DHS), on the road for years to come. This meant replacing our 14-year-old RV, which had reached the end of its life, with a new, fully customized model that could serve the public for a decade or more.

A Philanthropic Family Affair

The Aylozyan Family Foundation provided a generous gift to the Save Destination Healthy Skin campaign, helping the Foundation reach its goal to purchase a new RV and continue to provide free skin cancer screenings around the country.

Your April Update: 3 Quick Tips to Detect Skin Cancer Early

April is National Cancer Prevention and Detection Month, a great time to step up your skin cancer early detection game.

Here are some easy ways to start: Set monthly calendar reminders for your skin self-exams and make an appointment with a dermatologist for your annual skin cancer screening.

“Early Detection Saved My Life” A Young Mother’s Melanoma Journey

In 2018, a few months after she became a mother, Leah followed her own mom’s advice and went to the dermatologist for her first professional skin exam. She never imagined that the exam would uncover an aggressive melanoma and ultimately save her life. But that’s exactly what happened.

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