Blogs |
May 14, 2011
Watchwords
Today’s melanoma symposium in Seattle featured a panel of patients telling their stories. Some have been fighting melanoma for years. One was ...
January 27, 2025
Press Release
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FEATURED | September 11, 2025
Jason Chambers Headlines the Melanoma Research Fou...
Superyacht Captain, TV Personality, Melanoma Patient and Advocate Poised to Emcee Event Honoring the Melanoma Community New York City, NY (September 11, 2025) – The...
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Blogs |
May 10, 2011
Angels Unaware
In some ways cancer patients are just people. Some are mean, some are nice. Some are caring, some are indifferent. Having said that, cancer, like most maj...
Press Release |
April 30, 2011
Profiles in Courage
After two days of board meetings and tons of other activities I was exhausted. But I ran to the airport and jumped on an 8:15 flight last night, arriving in St. Louis...
Blogs |
April 22, 2011
Shying Away From Sun Increases Melanoma Risk
That is the headline in an article by Dr. John Briffa, a UK physician. Citing a 2008 article in the British Medical Journal, the author claims that melanoma incidence...
Blogs |
April 14, 2011
Profile in Courage
I won’t give her name here, but her story is worth telling. She was a young woman when she found an odd mole on her back. Simple surgery, but the path rep...
Blogs |
April 5, 2011
EPIC FAIL
To say that a patient failed a treatment is to use fairly common jargon in describing a situation in which the patient is no longer benefitting from that treatment. T...
Blogs |
April 5, 2011
Where the Sun Don’t Shine
About 2/3 of melanomas are caused by exposure to UV radiation. Often the damage is done in the days of our youth, and only manifested later in life. So if peopl...
Melanoma News |
March 25, 2011
Yervoy Approval in the News
The melanoma community has waited a long time for a breakthrough. See what MRF and patients have had to say about the FDA's decision on Yervoy: F.D.A. Approves D...
Events |
March 25, 2011
FDA Approval of New Melanoma Therapy Changes Lands...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thirteen years of waiting is now over for melanoma patients. That’s how long it’s been since the last therapy became available to treat t...
Melanoma News |
March 25, 2011
A Hero Called “ipi”
The news is not a surprise. We have been waiting for it for days. Maybe years. I was sitting in my office this morning when the phone rang. On the l...
Blogs |
March 11, 2011
New Tool Helps Melanoma Patients Explore Cutting-E...
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Most melanoma patients never hear about the most cutting edge treatments available to them. That’s because some of the most innovative a...
Blogs |
February 4, 2011
Study Finds News Hope for Prevention of Melanoma
The MRF is committed to funding research for finding new treatments that will make a meaningful impact on survival for melanoma patients and understanding ways to improve p...
Events & Fundraisers
Nov 22, 2025 PT
Saint John’s Cancer Institute Patient & Caregiver Symposium
