A former sun worshipper has warned of the deadly impact of seeking a natural tan after she was forced to have a section of her arm removed due to skin cancer. Jane Murray, 46, from Dublin, noticed a ...

Jacqueline Mills is used to seeing spots — but this one was different. The 32-year-old public school teacher rushed to a dermatologist after a small mark suddenly appeared on her right cheek, the ...

Welcome to Sun Blocked, Refinery29’s global call to action to wake up to the serious dangers of tanning. No lectures or shaming, we promise. Instead, our goal is to arm you with the facts you need to ...

There are three types of skin cancer. Basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer, which are rarely life-threatening, are treatable by removal. Melanoma is the most serious kind of skin cancer, which ...

Melanoma survivors share what led to their diagnosis and how they protect their skin now. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Courtesy of Kelly McWhinney, Juanita Taylor, Dayanara Torres and ...

Maryland resident James Riordan assumed the mole on his cheek was harmless until his wife pointed it out and encouraged him to have it examined. "I pointed it out to my dermatologist, and she probably ...

Best known for playing the charmingly-quirky sleuth Elsbeth on the hit CBS show of the same name, actress Carrie Preston, 58, recently revealed she was diagnosed with skin cancer after a mole on her ...

Sunbathing is tan-talizing — but it comes at a price. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US — and one of the most preventable. Overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or ...

At 19, listener Jake had no idea a chance run-in with a county nurse at a local pool would uncover melanoma. Years later, he spotted it again—this time while developing skin cancer detection tools in ...

John Cena never thought it would happen to him. But then he got the call – twice. The spots on his skin were cancerous. Cena’s first skin spot was discovered on his chest – in the area of his left ...