We just returned from a long overdue vacation and like many, we came back wishing for a healthier lifestyle after overindulging in food and fun. What does Staying Healthy mean to you? Despite the obesity rate in America, there is a continually-widening segment of our society making a real effort to eat healthier. Among others, ideas … Read more
As we’ve often written, Melanoma and skin cancer can occur anywhere on the body. Indeed, this blog just recently covered a rare Melanoma that can begin in your body. Today we’re going to stick with that theme of Melanoma developing where you normally wouldn’t expect it, and focus on Melanoma of the Nails (fingers and … Read more
When you share or retweet a joke or meme, you often bring a smile to someone’s face for a few seconds. When you forward on one of our skin cancer and Melanoma Awareness blog posts, there is always a chance that you might have just put someone on the path to saving his or her … Read more
Okay, so there’s technically nothing “good” about moles per se; unless you are Cindy Crawford, Sherilyn Fenn or Eva Mendez. As far as the ‘typical’ Moles go, there is really bad about them either. So the title of this post is, theoretically, justifiable. At any rate, today we’d like to talk about moles. And maybe, with some assistance from … Read more
I must say, I winced just reading the words “skin cancer” and “home remedy” strung together in its title. Skin cancer, and Melanoma, are completely incomparable to a bout with, say, Poison Ivy; to which your great-grandmother may have once applied some melted tree bark/green tea leaf concoction that’d been passed down to her in … Read more
Almost all of the time this blog is focused specifically on skin cancer. This piece, however, includes all cancers. ABC News posted an article (linked below) that cited a brief study published by The Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study’s findings appeared to show that up to 95% of cancer patients who were diagnosed with terminal … Read more
One of the worst things about having had cancer is the potential for a Cancer Recurrence. A patient doesn’t know for sure if and when a relapse of their disease might occur. That’s why any advancement that allows a doctor to see such a return coming down the tracks ahead of time, and thus allowing them to … Read more