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I Thought My Skin Cancer Risk Was Low — Until I Had My Moles Mapped

Welcome to Sun Blocked, Refinery29’s global call to action to wake up to the serious dangers of tanning. No lectures or ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Ask a doctor: I've had a mole on my arm my whole life. Could it become cancerous?

Q: I've had a mole on my arm my entire life and I've heard it may become cancerous. Should I be concerned? A: Just because you've had a mole or birthmark your entire life does not mean that it can't ...
Yahoo

A Miss Universe who thought it was just a mole, a college cheerleader who loved to tan: 4 women on having melanoma

Melanoma survivors share what led to their diagnosis and how they protect their skin now. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Courtesy of Kelly McWhinney, Juanita Taylor, Dayanara Torres and ...
Today

Woman diagnosed with melanoma at 21 when mole on her neck suddenly began changing

For as long as she could remember, Darcy Shaw had a mole on her neck in a prominent place close to the middle of her collarbone. It had always been small, but over the span of one year, the mole ...
UUHC Health Feed

How this Skin Cancer Researcher Found his “Ugly Duckling”

Jensen, associate vice president for research and professor of communication at the University of Utah (the U) as well as a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at Huntsman ...
Women's Health

‘My skin cancer journey’

In 2012, Grace McGuire was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma – a type of skin cancer most commonly caused by UV radiation from sunlight, sunbeds or sun lamps – while she was 36 weeks pregnant. Then ...