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Treatment of Melanoma
Once you have been diagnosed and your melanoma has been staged, your medical team will begin planning a course of…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback! [August 14-20th!]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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Melanoma Staging
Staging is commonly used in melanoma diagnosis and treatment to indicate the advancement and severity and cancer in a patient.…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback! [August 6th-13th]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback [July 30th-August 5th]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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Moles and Skin Self-Examination
Moles are the most common indication of melanoma and other skin cancers; luckily, they can be kept track of with…
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Don’t Try this at Home: DIY Sunscreen
As much as we love a good DIY project, sunscreen is something that is best left to medical professionals! If…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback! [July 23rd-19th]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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The UV Index and You
If you ever need scientific motivation to put on sunscreen, let the UV index be your guide! As UV radiation…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback! [July 16th-22nd]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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Cameron Institute’s Dr. John A. Bachynsky Offers Angle on Drug Pricing in Canada
In a recent post by the Cameron Institute, Dr. John A. Bachynsky suggests that “there are a growing number of…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback! [July 9th-15th]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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The Gender and Geography Statistics of Melanoma in Canada
Last week, we posted a broad overview of the past ten years in melanoma statistics, drawn from the Canadian Cancer…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback [July 2nd-8th]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
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Key Components of Successful Advocacy Campaigns
Really good campaigns have a way of positioning the issue so that people who might normally look at things from…
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Toronto Blue Jays Take on #NotJustSkinCancer
As part of the melanoma awareness campaign, Melanoma survivors from across Canada are sharing their stories in response to…
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Melanoma in Canada: A Short Review of the Past Ten Years
In the decade since the Save Your Skin Foundation began, the Canadian melanoma landscape has seen both positive and negative…
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Understanding the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) and how it affects those fighting skin cancer
Guest blog post by Elizabeth Eakin Within Canada, many patients are forced to move outside of their homes to receive…
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Save Your Skin Weekly Flashback [June 25th-July 1st, 2016]
Welcome to the Save Your Skin Foundation media flashback- your weekly guide to the melanoma landscape, and the activities of…
SAVE YOUR SKIN FOUNDATION
Making awareness and education available is crucial. Since 2006, the Foundation has worked to raise awareness of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers focusing on education, prevention and the need for improved patient care.