May is Skin Cancer Prevention Month, and many may have plans to be out and about during both Mother’s Day weekend and Memorial Day weekend in the coming weeks. Everyone will surely be hoping for sunny ...

Q: I am a 78-year-old woman who, in my early years, was exposed to many sunny days at the beach. Sunscreen was still a relatively new product in 1954 and not formulated to the standards required to ...

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Most melanomas detected in a general-practice dermatology clinic were found by dermatologists during full-body skin examinations of patients who had come to the clinic for different complaints, ...

I’ve been meaning to go to the dermatologist for years. At 32, with pale, freckled skin and a growing number of moles I obsessively monitor, I knew it was important — but I was nervous. Nervous about ...

A survey revealed the influence of prior stigmatic or discriminatory experiences on sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients’ perceptions of screening for skin cancer, stressing the need for ...

Rates of physician skin examinations increased significantly from baseline to 12 months in all three intervention groups: PAE, 24%-39%, relative risk [RR], 1.65, 95% ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Is skin cancer hereditary? My 63-year-old brother died of melanoma in 2021, and I’m wondering whether I’m at higher risk. — Younger Sister Dear Younger: While long-term sun exposure ...

Skin cancer impacts millions of Americans annually, but your chances of getting skin cancer and when it is diagnosed depend on much more than just sun exposure. A new study building off the NIH’s All ...