Skin Cancer
The latest skin cancer news, advice, and information, including screening, diagnosis, risk factors, treatment, and real-life stories about people living with these diseases.
Diagnosing Stage 4 Melanoma
Learn what to expect at the dermatologist and the best questions to ask your care team about skin cancer.
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Telling the Kids You Have Metastatic Melanoma
Telling your children you have metastatic melanoma is not easy. Here are some tips, such as talking to professionals and choosing the right time and place.
Improving on Melanoma Adjuvant Therapy
Researchers continue to work to refine and improve the effectiveness, tolerability, and precision of melanoma adjuvant therapies to best suit each patient.
After Your Melanoma Is 'Clear': Adjuvant Therapy?
Learn more about these treatments that can help prevent your cancer from returning, what to expect, and whether they might work for your case.
Metastatic Melanoma Clinical Trials
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?
Is a Cure for Melanoma on the Horizon?
One cancer researcher says "we will be curing a significant majority of melanoma patients by 2030."
Here's What to Ask Your Doctor About Adjuvant Therapy
Find out whether you're a good candidate for follow-up treatment that can help keep the melanoma from coming back.
Melanoma: Eat These Foods to Help Prevent Recurrence
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.
Innovations in Adjuvant Therapy for Melanoma
Advances in various therapies have some melanoma researchers optimistic about future treatment.
Telling Work About Your Metastatic Melanoma
Sharing news about an illness with colleagues is tough. Here's advice on smoothing the way.
Important: Metastatic Melanoma Follow-Up Care
Follow-up care after metastatic melanoma treatment includes skin exams, imaging, screenings for other cancers, management of side effects, and sun protection.
Meet the Experts
Eileen Bailey
Health WriterEileen Bailey is an award-winner author of six books on health and parenting. She specializes in ADHD, Anxiety, Sexual Health, Skin Care, Psoriasis and Skin Cancer.
Stephanie Stephens
M.A., Health WriterStephanie Stephens is a digital journalist, audio/video producer and host, specializing in health and celebrities.
Health News
Young Adults Aren't Heeding Tanning Warnings
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.
Indoor Tanning Tied to Soaring Health Costs
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 ...
The Connection Between Parkinson's Disease and Melanoma
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...