The latest skin cancer news, advice, and information, including screening, diagnosis, risk factors, treatment, and real-life stories about people living with these diseases.
Learn what to expect at the dermatologist and the best questions to ask your care team about skin cancer.
Researchers continue to work to refine and improve the effectiveness, tolerability, and precision of melanoma adjuvant therapies to best suit each patient.
Learn more about these treatments that can help prevent your cancer from returning, what to expect, and whether they might work for your case.
If you have metastatic melanoma, how do you know if a clinical trial might be right for you? And what can you expect if you join one?
One cancer researcher says "we will be curing a significant majority of melanoma patients by 2030."
Find out whether you're a good candidate for follow-up treatment that can help keep the melanoma from coming back.
Much of cancer is out of your control, but eating right can help improve your chances of a healthy survivorship. Try these tips from dietitian Carmen Roberts.
Advances in various therapies have some melanoma researchers optimistic about future treatment.
Sharing news about an illness with colleagues is tough. Here's advice on smoothing the way.
Follow-up care after metastatic melanoma treatment includes skin exams, imaging, screenings for other cancers, management of side effects, and sun protection.
Straightforward advice on how to make the skin cancer screening process go smoothly.
Millennials – people born between 1981 and 1996 – are largely uninformed about the sun safety and sunscreen recommendations and continue to tan despite warnings about skin cancer risk.
A new study suggests that skin cancer caused by indoor tanning beds results in about $343 million in medical costs each year in the United States. Over the lifetimes of people currently diagnoses with melanoma or other types of skin cancer linked to ...
Parkinson’s disease increases melanoma risk, and people with melanoma are at increased risk for developing Parkinson’s, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings that confirms earlier research suggesting a link. Although the associati...