Taking Ed’s Melanoma Fight to Capitol Hill
February 22, 2016I was first diagnosed with melanoma in 1996. Thanks to my primary care doctor, who identified an irregular mole on my back during a routine physical, and my dermatologist, Dr. Glenn Fuchs, who biopsied then removed the mole, it was identified very earl …
Guest Post: 4th Annual CURE OM’s Eye on a Cure Symposium
March 27, 2015Meeting summary written by By Esther Damaser, Ph.D., ocular melanoma survivor and CURE OM Patient Steering Committee member. I am an old hand at CURE OM meetings, and an even older one at dealing with ocular melanoma (OM) in general. For those of you n …
It Takes a Village – the Surgeon General’s Call to Action
July 31, 2014Your voice is needed now more than ever before. On July 29 the Acting Surgeon General of the United States issued a Call to Action on Skin Cancer Prevention. This 100+ page report was years in the making and reflects input from many different organizat …
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