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Monthly Spotlights

Sun Safety: Reduce Your Risk of Skin Cancer

As the days become warmer, it's natural to want to spend more time outside in the sunshine. But too much sun can lead to trouble. More than one million people are diagnosed with basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer in the United States every year, according to the National Cancer Institute, and 40 to 50 percent of Americans who live to age 65 will have these two types of skin cancer at least once.

Luckily, it's possible to reduce your risk of skin cancer by taking a few simple precautions before you step outside. On this page, you can learn about skin cancer prevention, as well as recent research into skin cancer treatment at Dana-Farber.

Sun Safety Resources

• Skin cancer prevention
• Melanoma symptoms and treatment options
• Skin Cancer Treatment Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• What you need to know about skin cancer from the National Cancer Institute

Personal Story

• First Person: Shonda Schilling

  

  Melanoma survivor Shonda Schilling, wife of Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, describes her skin cancer journey and explains why she started the SHADE Foundation, which is dedicated to sun safety education.

Skin Cancer News and Research

• Spring into sunny weather but stay sun safe (May 2, 2008)
• Report describes first targeted therapy to produce remission of metastatic melanoma (April 18, 2008)
• "Guardian of the genome" protein found to underlie skin tanning (March 8, 2007)
• New insight into skin-tanning process suggests novel way of preventing skin cancer (September 20, 2006)
• Mouse model aids discovery of novel melanoma metastasis gene (July 29, 2006)
• Scientists tie several cancers to common "oncogene engine" (June 13, 2006)
• Scientists identify novel gene driving the growth and survival of melanoma cells (July 6, 2005)
• Dana-Farber offers tips to help reduce the dangers of skin cancer and melanoma (May 12, 2005)
• Scientists discover the cellular roots of graying hair; findings could shed new light on malignant melanoma (Dec. 23, 2004)
• Scientists identify protein critical to melanoma growth (Dec. 20, 2004)
• The SHADE/Shonda and Curt Schilling Skin Cancer Prevention Initiative (April 15, 2004)
• More than skin deep (Paths of Progress, Winter/Spring 2004)

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