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Sign up with FacebookJennifer Matthews: Despite a kidney transplant, 6th-grader Vallie Hardaman keeps step with her classmates. But before she joins them on the playground, she has to take an extra step. Vallie Hardaman: I put sunscreen on; she makes me. Jennifer Matt...
Jennifer Matthews: Jim Hattaway is a 9-year survivor of melanoma. He's lucky doctors were able to treat him despite a delayed diagnosis. Jim Hattaway: They never found a primary, which is what you call the skin cancer as it first forms on the surf...
Jennifer Matthews: Dorothy Fahland grew up sunbathing -- first as a toddler, then as a teenager and young adult. Decades later, Dorothy had a skin cancer cut from above her eye, but the cancer grew back -- this time as a tumor behind her eye. Doro...
Sunshine and beach vacations are right around the corner. What are the top tips for staying safe in the sun?
Every May, it's Skin Cancer Awareness Month. But what does that really mean? And how can we all take advantage of it? In this DermTV episode, Dr. Schultz answers those questions.
Step 1: Look for ABCD's. Familiarize yourself with the ABCD's—that is, asymmetry, border, color, and diameter. Moles or birthmarks that are asymmetrical, have a jagged or irregular border, are blotchy or not all one color, or are bigger than about...
People who are sun worshipers and especially those with fair skin and blonde or red hair are at higher risk for developing the most serious type of skin cancer, known as melanoma. Melanomas develop because of damage to the DNA of cells called mela...
Male Speaker: There is no longer a safe steroid assumption that all basal cell cancer, squamous cancer, these are something that very old people get from a life time in this. They are extremely common. Male Speaker 1: As fall arrives the memory of...