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What happens when you “beat cancer”?  Survivorship is a tricky subject that can leave us with guilt and other mental and emotional challenges in being the “lucky” ones. Often, cancer patients...

Summer is here, the weather is warming up even in the most northern parts, and the solstice has just passed, giving us longer days and sun-light evenings. Along with the...

Immunotherapies continue to dominate the cancer landscape and are still the focal point of melanoma research. Cancer researchers release trial results at major oncology conference spread throughout the year in April...

Anyone living through melanoma knows that part of the “treatment” plan is not a treatment at all. Of all the cancers in all the lands, skin cancer holds two distinctions –...

The word “prevention” in skin cancer has fairly obvious connotations – to keep from getting, re-acquiring, or recurring a skin cancer diagnosis. I have always viewed this as a positive endeavor;...

Technology advances have made it possible to detect some cancers without a traditional biopsy; a start-up company in California is potentially making it possible to detect skin cancers without a...

Would you subject yourself to increase risk of an earlier death for a chance to look better for a limited amount of time? Would you continue to raise that risk to...

Now that you know what a clinical trial is, let's review some of the details behind participation in one and what you should expect to experience as a trial participant...

In a world of instant and constantly measured experiences, rankings matter. If a hotel, a restaurant, or a shop had a 4.5/5 star rating from its patrons, it sounds like...

Welcome to a bird's eye view of part of a dermatologist visit.  My doctor agreed to let me film part of my appointment so you could see the depth at...

If you have been paying any attention to cancer news in the last few years, you've probably heard a few prominent things. Joe Biden's cancer initiative in honor of his...

The Great American Solar Eclipse reminded those in the U.S. how damaging the sun can be, without protection – special “Eclipse glasses” with a welder’s rating of 14 were needed...

It is summertime - school is out, kids' sports are dominating weekends, and you are looking forward to that well-deserved week down the shore, at the lake, by the pool...

A skin cancer diagnosis is the first step in the rest of your life as a patient. As a two time melanoma patient, I have gone through the "What do...