Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to develop melanoma, but when they learn they have it, the skin cancer is often at an advanced stage, a new study of cases in Florida has found. ...more

December 30, 2009

Karin Odom barely winced when South Florida Baptist Hospital registered nurse Marcela Seelig's lance made a small prick in the skin of Odom's finger. ...more

November 27, 2009

The earlier skin cancer is diagnosed, the better the chance for a cure. Everyone can benefit from skin self-exam, which involves checking your own skin routinely for abnormal growths or unusual changes. ...more

November 7, 2009

A springtime tour alerting baseball fans to skin cancer risks reached about 44,000 fans across the state. ...more

May 23, 2009

Miss Florida Teen USA Kayla Collier was 15 when she first visited a tanning salon so the stage lights at a local pageant wouldn't make her fair skin look ghostly white. ...more

March 26, 2009

A state panel has commuted the sentence of an 88-year-old retiree to time served for a series of drive-by shootings into the home of a neighbor who owed him money. ...more

March 12, 2009

Candy, flowers and a romantic dinner may be great Valentine's Day gifts, but try screening your loved one for skin cancer. ...more

February 14, 2009

How quickly your skin ages, independent of lifestyle changes, depends to a large extent on heredity. ...more

February 4, 2009

Researchers may have taken another step toward a day when doctors can use microscopic spheres to destroy cancer cells from within. A team of scientists at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have used a tiny structured dubbed a "targeted" nanosphere to kill melanoma cells in laboratory mice. ...more

February 4, 2009

Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson has had a recurrence of cancer, this time in his spine, team officials said Thursday. ...more

January 30, 2009