Tiffany Weirbach Melanoma Foundation

Date	Title	Summary	Source
9/26/04	Hair will disappear, but fight will stay	Columnist John Whiteside documents his fight with melanoma in the Suburban Chicago News.	Suburban Chicago News
9/25/04	San Jose Man Dies From Melanoma	Kent Kirkorian was a dynamo who threw himself completely into whatever he was doing.``He went overboard,'' his daughter, Kim Brodnik, said fondly. When he got interested in toy trains, his five grandchildren soon had good reason to call him ``Papa Train.'' He took out his Los Gatos swimming pool so his G-scale railroad had more room to run. He set up tracks inside the house, as well. Mr. Kirkorian loved vehicles. But, his daughter said, ``He changed cars like most people change their underwear.''	San Jose Mercury News
9/24/04	1st Annual Kevin Pitra Memorial Ride for Melanoma Cancer Research	Kevin Pitra of Ohio was a professional soccer player and was in the process of getting his masters degree when he was diagnosed with skin cancer.	WKYC
9/23/04	Breast cancer/melanoma link suspected	Women with breast cancer may be at increased risk of malignant melanoma and vice versa according to new research.	Nursing Times
9/19/04	Doctors less prepared to say people are 'cured' of cancer	Doctors are now more reluctant to declare a patient "cured" from cancer: "... much to the chagrin of breast cancer advocacy groups and people with the deadly skin cancer melanoma, five-year survival doesn't bring great assurance that those diseases won't come back years later."	USA Today
9/16/04	Melanoma now most common cancer among young Western Australians	A new report says skin melanoma remains the most common cancer among 15 to 39-year-old Western Australians.	Medical News Today
4/10/04	Couple pledges $1 million to Hospital Hospitality House	Melanoma survivor donates one-million dollars to Tennessee non-profit.	http://www.tennessean.com
2/5/03	Two Patients Got Cancer From Transplant	In an unusual case of a transplanted organ causing disease, two patients developed melanoma from their new kidneys even though the donor was successfully treated for the cancer many years earlier	Yahoo News
2/5/03	Melanoma Transferred Via Donated Organs	Sixteen years after a Scottish woman was first diagnosed with melanoma, the deadly cancer was transferred to two more people via the woman's donated kidneys.	www.healthscout.com
1/29/03	Skiers at Risk for Skin Cancer: Experts	Skiers beware: you may be soaking up as much sun on some slopes as you would at a midsummer beach, according to a new study by New York dermatologists.	Reuters
8/23/02	Cybill Shepherd's Health Scare	The actress has had a growth removed from her back that a supermarket tabloid described as a "scaly patch" that tested positive for the potentially lethal skin cancer melanoma, but that Shepherd's publicist says was benign.	E Online
7/19/02	Vanity May Be Key to Cut Tanning Salon Use	Emphasizing the adverse effects tanning has on one's appearance may be just the trick for reducing the amount of time young women spend in tanning salons, new research findings suggest.	Reuters
7/15/02	More Sun Equals More Skin Cancer, Researchers Say	The more sun you get, the higher your risk of skin cancer, U.S. researchers said in a report they claim is the first to show an individual's cumulative risk of melanoma.	Reuters
7/11/02	Make Suncare Lessons Fun For Kids	Teaching children proper skin care at an early age is as important as getting them to brush their teeth and eat their vegetables. The truth is that most people don't start worrying about their skin until they are old enough to notice the damage the sun has caused.	Metro Editorial Services (press release)
7/8/02	Many Patients Miss Mole Growth, Study Finds	Study findings show that many people seem to be unable to determine whether or not their moles are enlarging.	Reuters
7/8/02	Ex-Enron Worker Battling Cancer	Bill Peterson was on short-term disability undergoing experimental chemotherapy for a particularly deadly form of melanoma when he learned he had been laid off from Enron Corp. Eight months later the 55-year-old former Enron Net Works employee uses morphine patches to stave off the pain.	Yahoo News
5/5/02	The wife of a pitching ace wants you to be aware of the dangers of skin cancer.	`I didn't think skin cancer was real cancer," says Shonda Schilling, 34, wife of Arizona pitching ace Curt Schilling. But when she learned that 7400 Americans die each year from melanoma like hers, "I started to cry," says this mother of three.	Parade Magazine
4/24/02	American Academy of Dermatology and Arizona Diamondbacks Launch Annual Initiative to Strike Out Skin Cancer	No one knows the importance of practicing sun-safe behavior and conducting skin self-examinations more than Shonda Schilling, wife of Arizona Diamondbacks’ all-star pitcher Curt Schilling. Shonda was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, in December of 1999. Now, more than two years and several surgeries later, she knows her life will never be the same.	American Academy of Dermatology
4/3/02	Skin safety a concern, even in the heart of winter	"Most people think about protecting their skin from the sun in the summer. What people don't realize is that in the wintertime, when we don't lay out in the sun, the sun's UVA rays are stronger than they are in the summertime," explained Krista Kiley, global educator for Aveda Skin and Body Care.	Weather.com
3/28/02	Skin Cancer Rates Soaring in British Men	For the first time in at least 20 years, more British men than women are dying from the cancer, which claims over 1,600 lives each year in the rainy island nation, according to researchers from the charity Cancer Research UK.	Reuters
3/7/02	Students in Detroit honor the teacher they lost to melanoma	James Panzenhagen, 29, was the physical education teacher at Clark. He also developed a basketball program at the school. Panzenhagen died from melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer that claims about 8,000 lives each year	Yahoo News
2/8/02	Maryland Governor Has Cancer Surgery To Remove Malignant Melanoma	Doctors removed a malignant melanoma from the scalp of Gov. Parris Glendening during a six-hour operation Friday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.	Associated Press
2/5/02	Former presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain Undergoes Surgery for Skin Cancer	Surgeons at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix took about an hour to remove a skin lesion less than one centimeter in size from the left side of McCain's nose that was considered to be "the earliest form of melanoma," the statement said.	Reuters
1/31/02	Legendary Pianist Roger Williams has skin cancer	World famous pianist Roger Williams has part of nose removed due to skin cancer.	Las Vegas Review Journal
1/16/02	DNA Repair Ability Affects Risk of Melanoma: Study	The risk of melanoma--the most deadly type of skin cancer--is influenced in some people by the body's ability to heal sunlight-related DNA damage, scientists have discovered.	Reuters
1/14/02	The war on cancer is heading within -- to the immune system	It's a type of treatment that holds promise for dealing not just with malignant melanoma, but with a host of cancers. The immune system is a built-in defense that shields the body from bacteria and viruses. Doctors and researchers believe the immune system also can be made to shield the body from cancer, the nation's No. 2 killer behind heart disease.	Akron Beacon Journal
1/2002	Melanoma Information on the Internet: Often Incomplete—A Public Health Opportunity? * *Also be sure to read about this study in HealthScout online: "Some Melanoma Web Sites Only Skin Deep"	A recent study found that medical information retrieved with the search term melanoma was likely to lack complete basic melanoma information and contained inaccuracies in 14% of sites.	Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 20, Issue 1 (January), 2002
1/3/02	Rate of Cancer Highest in North America: Study	North America leads the world in the rate of cancers diagnosed in adults, followed closely by Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand, according to a recent estimate of worldwide cancer rates (Includes melanoma).	International Journal of Cancer
10/17/01	Thalidomide: Single-handed Cancer Fighter?	Thalidomide, a drug with a notorious past that has been rehabilitated in recent years as a booster for anti-cancer medications, may work all by itself to fight a deadly skin cancer.	www.healthscout.com
10/6/01	'Morning-After' Cream May Prevent Skin Cancer	Researchers are working on an experimental cream that appears to fix the cellular damage caused by overexposure to the sun.	www.healthscout.com
10/1/01	Designer Molecule Cuts Off Cancer's Blood Supply	Human trials of a genetically engineered molecule designed to kill cancers by destroying their blood supply could begin early next year, researchers say.	www.healthscout.com
9/19/01	Melanoma Tied to Sunburns Early in Life	Using genetically engineered mice whose skin closely resembles that of humans, National Cancer Institute (NCI) researchers say they've found evidence that sun damage early in life dramatically increases the risk of malignant melanoma in adulthood.	www.healthscout.com
8/15/01	NASA looks at ultraviolet radiation	The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) says that half of all new cancers are skin cancers -- and that melanoma, a particularly virulent form of skin cancer, kills one person per hour on average. And while it's certainly not the only cause of skin cancer, exposure to the sun is perhaps the most important preventable cause, say dermatologists.	www.cnn.com
7/6/00	Drug Combo May Keep Melanoma at Bay	A combination of two common cancer drugs shows promise in keeping malignant melanoma at bay, claims new research. Neither drug alone has proven effective against malignant melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. But together the drugs seem to work better than any treatment currently available	www.healthscout.com
3/14/00	Moles and Freckles a Family Affair	Understanding how and why moles are inherited could someday allow doctors to screen, and possibly treat, people at risk for melanoma, the deadliest of skin cancers.	www.healthscout.com