TUCSON, Ariz. – Throughout the United States, May is known as Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, and the month will be recognized by the Skin Cancer Institute at the Arizona Cancer Center.

 

To prepare for this month, physicians and researchers from the Skin Cancer Institute, the Arizona Cancer Center and The University of Arizona College of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology will be available for interviews to discuss prevention, detection and treatment of deadly melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. We also have posted a number of helpful guides, sun-safety tips and facts on our website at: http://azcc.arizona.edu/sci/about-skin-cancer/may which you may link to on your organization’s website.

 

Key dates:

 

May 1 and 2, Living in Harmony with the Sun events at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days.

 

Skin Cancer Institute representatives will be at the world-renowned facility to showcase the partnership between the Institute and the Desert Museum. A limited number of skin cancer screenings will be performed by local dermatologists, on a first-come basis. The event will feature information about prevention, detection and treatment of skin cancer, the Number 1 form of cancer in the United States.

Living in Harmony events are free with the regular Desert Museum admission charge.

 

May 3, Melanoma Monday

 

Please schedule an advance interview now, and plan to send a crew to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum May 1 or 2 to get B-roll. You may also choose to have a Skin Cancer Institute representative on your morning show on May 3 or any day in May.

 

Friday May 28, Don’t Fry Day

 

On the day before the unofficial start to the summer/vacation season, the Arizona Cancer Center is joining with the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to encourage Americans to participate in the second annual national sun safety day and pledge to enjoy the outdoors safely by protecting against overexposure to the sun’s damaging UV rays.