Skip to content
Blogs
FEATURED | May 1, 2025

Why I’m Getting Naked for Skin Health 

Guest blog post by Ian Michael Crumm, Celebrity Esthetician, Podcast Host, Key Opinion Leader, Melanoma Advocate and 2025 #GetNaked Spokesperson: Some moments stick with yo...

3 Minute Read
Blogs |
September 9, 2021

Pediatric Melanoma Awareness: Millie’s Story

For our Pediatric Melanoma Awareness campaign we share Millie’s story who was diagnosed with spitzoid melanoma before she turned five:  The words “your child h...

3 Minute Read
Blogs |
September 7, 2021

Pediatric Melanoma Awareness: Keasy’s Story

For our Pediatric Melanoma Awareness campaign, we share a story from 3-year-old Keasy who was diagnosed with pediatric melanoma in December of 2020: Hi, I’...

4 Minute Read
Melanoma News |
August 30, 2021

MRF’s 25th Anniversary: Learning More about ...

For our 25th anniversary, we share a guest blog from Vito Rebecca, PhD from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health: As a scientist, a translational rese...

3 Minute Read
Blogs |
July 28, 2021

MRF Funding Advances Mucosal Melanoma Research

Guest blog post by Florian Karreth, PhD, a 2018 Career Development Award recipient from Moffitt Cancer Center: In 2018, my laboratory at the Moffitt Cancer Center received ...

4 Minute Read
Blogs |
July 22, 2021

How His Father’s Battle with OM Changed Jose...

Guest blog from Joseph Boyle, CURE OM advocate whose father passed away from OM in 2016: Hello, my name is Joseph Boyle. My relationship to OM isn’t necessarily a positiv...

3 Minute Read
Blogs |
July 9, 2021

Report: Decline in Melanoma Deaths Leads an Overal...

July 9 – A rapid decline in deaths from lung cancer and melanoma led an overall drop in cancer mortality in men and women across all racial and ethnic groups in the U...

2 Minute Read
Blogs |
July 9, 2021

Caregiver Perspective on an Ocular Melanoma Diagno...

Guest blog from Paul Zubeck, caregiver to his wife Lindsay who has ocular melanoma:  I became a caregiver in March of 2017 when my wife, Lindsay, was diagnosed with ocular...

3 Minute Read
Blogs |
June 22, 2021

How YES-CAN! Can Help Kids Learn About Sun Safety

Guest blog from Lori Crane, PhD, MPH, a 2016 MRF Donor Directed Award from the University of Colorado, Denver:  As melanoma rates have soared over the past 100 years, so ...

5 Minute Read
Blogs |
June 18, 2021

An Eye-Opening Experience Through a Metastatic Mel...

Guest blog from Kyle Lewis, a stage IV metastatic melanoma survivor:  Clank. Clank. Clank thud. Whoosh. Dang – my range is off. Clank. Whoosh. Whoosh. Ouch. I better ...

5 Minute Read
Blogs |
June 11, 2021

Carla Tressell’s Journey with Ocular Melanom...

Guest blog from Carla Tressell who started her journey with OM in 2004:  My name is Carla Tressell and I live with my husband, Jim, and our dog, Axle, in Arvada, CO. My jo...

5 Minute Read
Press Release |
May 21, 2021

Melanoma Awareness Month: In Memory of Jim Marks

Guest blog from Sibby Dawson, daughter of Jim Marks who passed away from stage IV melanoma in 2018: My father, Jim Marks, was first diagnosed with stage IV melanoma in Janu...

3 Minute Read
Press Release |
May 21, 2021

Melanoma Awareness Month: Spreading the Message of...

Guest blog from Mary Forni, in memory of her husband James who passed away from melanoma in 2015:  James was originally diagnosed with melanoma in April of 2007 after a ...

4 Minute Read

May 17, 2025

Mayo Clinic Patient and Caregiver Symposium

May 17, 2025

Melanoma Clinic Walk

May 20, 2025

Ask the Expert: Understanding Melanoma: Risk Factors, Screening Data and Sun Safety Best Practices

May 30, 2025 - Jun 03, 2025

ASCO

Jun 14, 2025

Miles for Melanoma Denver, CO

Sep 18, 2025

MRF Annual Gala – Denver

Oct 16, 2025

MRF Signature Event – #GetNakedJax

Explore Events