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Webinar – Post-CMC 2023 Update from Dr. Smylie

Date/Time:  March 1 – 5pm-6:30 pm PT / 8pm-9:30 pm ET Presented by Dr. Michael Smylie, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, this webinar will review breaking news, key takeaways, clinical data and other…

Patient Reported Experience Measures: 2022 Highlights!

In 2022, Save Your Skin Foundation ran three major patient surveys in order to collect patient-reported experience measure data (PREMs):  “The Patient Experience: Systemic Treatment of Adult Cutaneous Melanoma” (April/May)…

Hockey Fights Cancer Focuses on Save Your Skin Foundation This Year

Save Your Skin Foundation has been chosen to receive special focus during the Vancouver Canucks’s Hockey Fights Cancer Night!   This year’s Hockey Fights Cancer game will have a special…

Webinar – Living with Cancer: Survivorship & Mental Wellness

Date/Time:  November 23, 2022 – 5pm-6:30 pm PT / 8pm-9:30 pm ET This webinar will focus on the experience of cancer survivors and the importance of mental wellness from the…

November is Ocular Melanoma Awareness Month

November is Ocular Melanoma Awareness month – and it is the time of year we at Save Your Skin Foundation and Ocumel Canada bring extra public awareness to the importance…

Move for Melanoma 2022 – It’s a Wrap

A tremendous THANK YOU to all of our incredibly dedicated participants and generous donors! 74 participants and 20 teams across Canada took part in Move for Melanoma this year! We have been so moved…

Upcoming Webinar: Prognostic Testing and What It Means to Ocular Melanoma Patients

Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, September 14 at 5pm PST | 8pm EST. In this webinar, Katherina Alsina, PhD, Castle BioSciences, Dr. Ezekiel Weis, Provincial Medical Lead,…

2022 Sunscreen Dispenser Pilot

OUR 2022 SUNSCREEN DISPENSER PILOT HAS BEEN LAUNCHED! Save Your Skin Foundation partnered with medical student siblings Samuel and Karen Farag, and the municipalities of Summerside, PEI, Riverview, NB, New Westminster, BC, and Brooks, AB –…

Move for Melanoma 2022

Move for Melanoma is an activity challenge that takes place across Canada. The goal of the event is to bring awareness to melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer and ocular melanoma, while…

Big steps forward in OM treatment & support in Canada

Ocumel Canada in the News As Ocumel Canada continues to support and advocate for patients touched by ocular melanoma (OM), we are happy to see a monumental step forward in…

Cancer Survivor Day 2022

The term ‘survivor’ can mean different things to different people. For some, a survivor may have completed active treatment and is free from any signs of melanoma or non-melanoma skin…