Guest blog post by Connie Kostelnik, wife to Tom Kostelnik and caregiver: “Tom was no stranger to hard work or perseverance. A scholar-athlete at heart, he played foo...

Guest blog post by LaShelle Rabold, melanoma patient and advocate:  “I never had sunburns; I have my mother’s olive skin tone. I’m half Filipino and my complexio...

Etai David Gamliel  Metastatic Melanoma at Age 33: My Four Month Odyssey   Epigraph.  “Much is hidden from us, so much we simply don’t know. And the great and agoniz...

Guest blog post by Pediatric Melanoma Patient, Sophie Ogden: “Hi, my name is Sophie Ogden, and I am 16 years old from Jessup, Georgia. It’s such an honor to be able...

Martin McMahon, PhD Cumming-Presidential Professor of Cancer Biology, Dept. of Dermatology & Huntsman Cancer Institute of the University of Utah The photo depicts a met...

Guest Blog by Allison Dashow, an ocular melanoma survivor:  On June 1st, 2022, just weeks after graduating from my doctoral program in clinical psychology, I was diagn...

Guest Blog by Cindy Schulz, an ocular melanoma survivor: “Hello, my name is Cindy and in December 2002, my entire world changed. Until this time, I had gone for yearl...

Guest Blog from Jon Davis, a metastatic ocular melanoma survivor: “I’d never heard of “eye cancer” as a thing until my daughter’s kindergarten...

Guest blog post by acral melanoma thriver, Eric Niles: “We may not be able to cure you, but we may be able to heal you,” said the professional staff at Commonweal’s C...

Guest blog from Marit Peterson, a pediatric melanoma thriver who was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma as an infant: Marit Liv Peterson was born in Dallas, Texas in 2004 into...