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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...

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that can be produced in the body when the skin is exposed to sunlight. There are not many foods that contain vitamin D, but...

I have a basal cell carcinoma and am having Moh's surgery. I'm scared and I'm upset and I just want the surgery to be over. But in the meanwhile, I...

Scarring is the natural process that occurs as the layers of the skin heal, whether from trauma, surgery, burns, or severe acne. While doctors treating skin cancer do their best...

Every clinical trial is designed to look at a specific population, so each participant is required to have certain traits (eligibility criteria) in order to take part in the study...

A clinical trial is a research study that is conducted to determine whether a specific medical intervention, such as a treatment, device, procedure, or change in behavior is safe and...

The month of June is Men’s Health Month. I am all about being healthy so if this month is about being healthy as a guy, then I am all in...

“You have black death.” With those words, I began my dance with skin cancer. It was the summer of 1988 and I was sitting in the Jacuzzi at a pool...

So you’ve been diagnosed with skin cancer. Now what? Most likely, your doctor will either want to remove the cancerous area or refer you to another doctor for removal. It’s...

You’ve done the right thing by making an appointment to have your doctor look at a suspicious place on your skin, after too long of brushing it off as “probably...

“That’s me?!”, I exclaimed. I remember the first time that I realized that my hair was thinning up top. I had just gotten home after a road trip with the...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S., and melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. Although it accounts for just 2% of all...

After my diagnosis and surgery, I got a lot of questions. Most, if not, all went like this: “What happened to your arm?” followed by “Oh, that’s too bad, can...

A diagnosis of skin cancer brings up many emotions, including feelings of shock, surprise, fear, and worry. Over 900 survey respondents to the recent Skin Cancer in America 2017 survey...

On April 18, 2017, the NBC Nightly News ran a story regarding the use of sunscreen by students in schools. News reporter Kristen Dahlgren highlighted a family in which two...