One month to go until the Save Your Skin Foundation Giving Hope Gala! This year we will kick off Melanoma Awareness Month to increase awareness of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer and ocular melanoma, to raise funds to support the work of the foundation and the...
Guest post by Rosemary Westie, ultra marathon runner and member of Team Save Your Skin, who is traveling to France in June 2019 to run the race of a lifetime. On June 6th, 1944 hundreds of thousands of soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy to begin...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) is a not-for-profit alliance of 28 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to improving and facilitating quality, effective, efficient, and accessible cancer care so patients can live better lives. Through the leadership...
Ocular Melanoma - Innovative Treatments and Beyond With Presenters: Dr. Marcus Butler, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dr. Omid Hamid, The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, Los Angeles, California Nigel Deacon, Ocular Melanoma Survivor/Patient, British Columbia, Canada This webinar provides an update on the landscape of metastatic ocular...
Back by popular demand! Save Your Skin Foundation is hosting our 2nd annual Giving Hope Gala and Auction in Toronto on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. This year we will kick off Melanoma Awareness Month to increase understanding of skin cancer and ocular melanoma, to raise...
For the past year, Save Your Skin Foundation has been working with ocular melanoma (OM) survivor and advocate Nigel Deacon, to improve OM patient care across the country. Together we created a survey and resulting report in order to gain insight into the Canadian OM...
At this time of year, I like to personally thank all of our patients, caregivers, family and friends for their ongoing support. We've made great progress this year in improving psycho-social care and treatment options for patients, especially those in the adjuvant setting. We could...
We are happy to announce the launch of an informative website about clinical trials by another of our supporting partners. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. has put together a website called ForPatients, which includes a search tool for finding clinical trials in various cancer indications, plus...
Join us for this free webinar, which reviews the latest news and clinical data related to melanoma treatment in the adjuvant setting, as presented in the 2018 conference season. 'Adjuvant' refers to patients with a stage II or stage III diagnosis. The majority of adjuvant patients typically undergo...
On September 26, 2018, you may have seen a special insert in the paper version of the National Post across the country, featuring eight pages of informative articles about immunotherapy, an innovative treatment proving successful in several cancer indications. This special content is the result...
