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FEATURED | May 1, 2025

Why I’m Getting Naked for Skin Health 

Guest blog post by Ian Michael Crumm, Celebrity Esthetician, Podcast Host, Key Opinion Leader, Melanoma Advocate and 2025 #GetNaked Spokesperson: Some moments stick with yo...

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April 11, 2014

Update: Help Secure Millions of Dollars for Melano...

In March of 2014, 22 members of Congress supported an increase in funding dedicated to researching melanoma in the military.

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March 6, 2014

Your Action Needed: Help Secure Millions of Dollar...

With your help, we can increase federal funding for melanoma research.

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February 26, 2014

Mission vs. Business

I had coffee recently with a woman who has a family member with pediatric melanoma. “No one is doing anything about this,” she told me. No one has built a websi...

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February 21, 2014

The MRF Works with Congress to Secure $10 Million ...

Melanoma along with 11 other cancers are eligible to compete for $25 million in program funding.

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January 17, 2014

The MRF Partners with Cancer Commons to Launch Onl...

The Melanoma Research Foundation and Cancer Commons announce the launch of the Donate Your Data Program, an online patient registry to advance research for a cure.

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January 8, 2014

FDA Approves First Combination Therapy for Advance...

Today the FDA issued the first-ever approval of a drug combination for the treatment of melanoma.

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January 6, 2014

Guest Post: A Promise to My Daughter

Our Education Program Manager Shelby Moneer writes, “I’d always heard that ‘everything changes when you have a baby.’ While I expected that to be true, ...

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December 11, 2013

NYC Department of Health Votes to Regulate Tanning...

Today the NYC Board of Health approved new rules regulating indoor tanning facilities.

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November 14, 2013

Your Action Needed: NYC Proposes Regulatory Author...

Help us move legislation forward to assign regulatory authority of New York City indoor tanning facilities to the NYC Department of Health.

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November 14, 2013

Guest Post: Not Pretty? No Problem. Buy a Tan!

Our National Director of Volunteer Services, Mary Antonucci, writes: “How’s this for a business strategy— take the fact some women tend to suffer from low self-es...

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October 31, 2013

CURE OM Announces New Research Grant Recipients an...

The Melanoma Research Foundation’s CURE Ocular Melanoma Initiative Announces New Research Grant Recipients and Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary

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October 22, 2013

Kevin Nealon to Host Second Annual Celebrity Golf ...

Actor and comedian Kevin Nealon will reprise his role as host of the second annual Celebrity Golf Classic to fuel melanoma research on November 18th at the Lakeside Golf Cl...

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Miles for Melanoma Twin Cities, MN

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Miles for Melanoma Philadelphia, PA

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MRF Annual Gala – Denver

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Miles for Melanoma New York City, NY (Tentative)

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Miles for Melanoma Morristown, NJ

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Miles for Melanoma Seattle, WA (Tentative)

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Miles for Melanoma Los Angeles, CA (Tentative)

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