Melanoma Awareness Month: Patrick Guddal
May 3, 2023Guest blog by Patrick Guddal, a stage 3 melanoma survivor and advocate who shares his journey after being diagnosed in 2016: In the spring of 2016, I felt a small bump on my scalp. I didn’t think much of it. I figured I scratched myself in my sleep. In …
Pediatric Melanoma Awareness Month: Nobody Is Invincible
September 30, 2022For our Pediatric Melanoma Awareness campaign, we share melanoma thriver and advocate, Christine Sams’, guest blog post– who was diagnosed with melanoma after years of underage tanning bed use. I was in middle school when I first used a tanning bed. I …
Melanoma Awareness Month: My Journey with a Rare Cancer
May 31, 2022Guest blog from Sheila Levine, ocular melanoma survivor who shares her continued journey with melanoma and why she fights to advocate for prevention and awareness: When I was first diagnosed in 2008, I had never heard of ocular melanoma. Melanoma in …
Melanoma Awareness Month: You have one life to live, live it your way and live it to the fullest!
May 19, 2022Guest blog from Candice Mason, who shares her story with stage IV melanoma and how she gives back to the community through melanoma advocacy and prevention awareness: My name is Candice Mason. The sun is brutal in the parched desert where I live but I …
Melanoma Awareness Month: I am proud of the woman I am today, because I went through one hell of a time becoming her
May 17, 2022Guest blog from Katie Ostrovsky, stage IV metastatic melanoma survivor who shares her journey with melanoma and why she fights to advocate for prevention and awareness: My name is Katie and I am known on social media as @My_Melanoma_World. Here’s my s …
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