Local Resources:
The Cancer Support Community offers a wide variety of support groups, educational programs, healthy lifestyle classes, social opportunities and individual support services for those affected by cancer.
Cancer Family Care is a local nonprofit organization that helps children and adults cope with the effects of a cancer diagnosis in the family.
Hospice of Cincinnati provides a comprehensive, personalized Plan of Care that is tailored to each individual’s varying needs.
Local Cancer Centers:
The Christ Hospital Cancer Center
University of Cincinnati Cancer Center
National Resources:
Aim at Melanoma – Aim for Answers, Action and a Cure. Site offers detailed information about early detection, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
The American Academy of Dermatology campaign, See Spot…Check Spot…Save a Life, stresses the importance of skin self-examinations as a tool in the early detection of skin cancer, and especially the use of a partner to help examine those hard to see locations on the body.
Known as a database for all types of cancer, the American Cancer Society has on-line information about melanoma.
The Imerman Angels provides FREE personalized one-on-one cancer support for cancer fighters, survivors and caregivers.
The Melanoma Education Foundation is devoted to saving lives from melanoma. The Foundation provides complete information about early self-detection and prevention of melanoma on their web site.
The mission of the Melanoma Research Alliance is to end suffering and death due to melanoma by collaborating with all stakeholders to accelerate powerful research, advance cures for all patients, and prevent more melanomas.
The Melanoma Research Foundation aims to support medical research for finding effective treatments and a cure for melanoma, educate patients and physicians about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of melanoma and act as an advocate for the melanoma community to raise awareness of this disease and the need for a cure.
The Melanoma Action Coalition, of which Melanoma Know More is a member, is a group of melanoma foundations focused on increasing awareness about melanoma, providing education about sun safety, and raising money for melanoma research.
The National Cancer Institute has photos of melanomas, normal moles and atypical moles. A list of publications is also available on-line.
The Skin Cancer Foundation publishes literature about skin cancers and provides information via their comprehensive internet site.
