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Hot Lucy Fundraiser – A huge THANK YOU to our attendees and sponsors!
The Benefit Concert at The Media Club in Vancouver with Hot Lucy and Guests Apollo’s Crush was a big success! Thank…
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Hike for Hope – June 6, 2015
Hike for Hope – hope for a cure; hope for survivorship. Hike to celebrate hope for advanced melanoma survivorship, where there…
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A Reminder About Sun Safety in the Form of SYSF Board Member, Christian Mosley
May is Melanoma Awareness Month, in the spirit of which Save Your Skin would like to lend a reminder about…
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Hot Lucy is Rockin’ for the Cause
Terry Fay, Investment Advisor, is also a rockstar. The band he drums for, Hot Lucy, played their first benefit for…
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The hard questions – how I explain a really complicated cancer and treatment to my friends and family
I’ve just been diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma and begin frantically searching the internet. Basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma,…
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Team Save Your Skin
Team Save Your Skin is a sports fundraising team – members are Save Your Skin Foundation Champions! Throughout the year,…
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One Melanoma Patient’s Need for Community
I find it comforting to meet or speak with others surviving the melanoma maze. Visiting my cancer centre on a…
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What is Sun Safe Clothing and How Does It Protect from Harmful UV Exposure?
Every week our team scours the internet looking for information that helps our communities stay sun safe and sun aware.…
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At the Heart of it – We Help Who Matters Most
Thanks to the emergence of trial drugs and more well-informed communities, patients can survive aggressive Melanoma. Recently we spoke to…
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I’m Living Proof
About the I’m Living Proof Initiative When Kathy Barnard (Founder, Save Your Skin Foundation) was diagnosed with Metastatic Malignant Melanoma…
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Hands Across the Globe
If you have done a trail run or a bike race in North Vancouver, there’s a good chance you have…
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Lending a Hand
Shaheed Khan of Khan Kreativ has been a friend and neighbour of Kathy Barnard’s for many years, and is infamous…
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The Save Your Skin Foundation Supports Lettres en main’s New Book about Skin
The Save Your Skin Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of the most recent edition of Lettres en main (which…
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Two major milestones for ground-breaking melanoma immunotherapies bring a hopeful beginning for 2015
Yervoy moves another step towards being available for newly diagnosed Canadian patients and new treatment Opdivo receives FDA approval VANCOUVER…
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The Save Your Skin Foundation received very good news from the 2014 Society of Melanoma Research Congress.
After Merck Keytruda, BMS’s Opdivo showed very good results in a trial where it improves survival over chemotherapy. About 73%…
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The Save Your Skin Foundation Story – a nieces perspective
Did you catch our most recent newsletter? If not, make sure you sign-up today to receive great news and updates…
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SYSF Statement on Picato CDR and RoA
The Save Your Skin Foundation is disappointed with the recent Record of Advice released by the Canadian Drug Expert Committee…
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Free Skin Screenings Across Canada
The CDA will be holding free, public skin cancer screenings and other events throughout Sun Awareness Week. The screenings will…
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Activities For Children
If you know any teens — either individuals or, even better, a group — who are interested in video, let…
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Survival, Durable Tumor Remission, and Long-Term Safety in Patients With Advanced Melanoma Receiving Nivolumab
Complimentary copies of Best of JCO (Journal of Clinical Oncology) have been made available at the ASCOAnnual Meeting. More specifically,…
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.