Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of the Save Your Skin Foundation! It’s the first week of summer in the Western world, which means it’s definitely time to start thinking about sun safety! Check out our recent blog about sun safety here. We’re also running a summer sun safety behaviour survey, which we would love for you to fill out! You can find it here.
If you missed the flashback last week, it is our pleasure to inform you that Save Your Skin Founder Kathy Barnard was awarded a BC Community Achievement Award in May! Shaw TV will be airing the event for the rest of June and into July; a broadcasting schedule can be found here.
Here are some images and links we shared with you this week:
- This cute video from Leo Pharmaceuticals about sun safety
- This article from Sundicators about protecting your skin from the sun
- The American Academy of Dermatology’s new Melanoma PSA, “‘Arms’”
- This link to the draft of the Government of Canada’s Guidelines for Tanning Equipment Owners, Operators, and Users, with a feedback opportunity
- This article in Targeted Oncology announcing that the Melanoma Institute Australia and the University of Sydney have deemed the combination of pembrolizumab and ipilimumab as a safe treatment for advanced melanoma
- This article in Fierce Pharma that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has approved Bristol-Meyer’s combination of Opdivo and Yervoy for advanced melanoma patients
- This Today piece about the “Mr. Sun” campaign, which aims to warn families about the possibly severe consequences of childhood burns
- This HelloGiggles article debunking 13 myths about sunscreen and skin cancer
- This piece from Cure Today about the 2014 Cancer Experience Registry Report, “Elevating the Patient Voice”
