Happy New Year! We hope that keeping your skin safe and healthy is one of your goals for 2025. Here are three easy ways to get started:
Happy New Year! We hope that keeping your skin safe and healthy is one of your goals for 2025. Here are three easy ways to get started:
On December 29, 2024, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away at home, under hospice care, at the age of 100. Carter, well-known for his public service and humanitarian work, was the longest-lived president in U.S. history. During the final decade of his life, the former president faced numerous health issues, including a battle with stage IV melanoma.
In 2024, The Skin Cancer Foundation launched fresh campaigns, reinvented educational materials and worked to improve health equity so that lifesaving information is made available to more people.
Our Destination Healthy Skin mobile screening and education program provided a record number of free skin cancer screenings in 2024. Over the course of six months, 68 physician volunteers performed 2,439 screenings and identified 1,009 potential skin cancers and precancers, including 86 melanomas.
Katie was diagnosed with melanoma at age 26 and fought a grueling 8-year battle with the disease. She shares her story of survival to urge everyone to check their skin regularly and to see a dermatologist if something doesn’t look or feel right. Skin cancer can be deadly, and early detection can save your life.
Fall is nearly here and we want to remind you that even though it’s cooler outside, you should always protect your skin.
Good Morning America host and weather anchor Sam Champion is no stranger to skin cancer. After his first bout with the disease at age 26, Sam has had multiple skin cancers removed and is familiar with the warning signs of the disease. But even he was surprised by the appearance of his most recent basal cell carcinoma (BCC), so he’s speaking up about the importance of regular skin exams, getting to know your skin and trusting your instincts.
Fall is nearly here and we want to remind you that even though it’s cooler outside, you should always protect your skin.
Steven Q. Wang, MD, a renowned skin cancer expert, walks patients through every phase of a melanoma diagnosis in his latest book, Beating Melanoma.
Since 2010, when she was diagnosed with Stage I melanoma, Melissa Garrett has been fighting a grueling battle against chronic skin cancer, including a second melanoma in 2021, and so many basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) that she has lost track.
