A comprehensive website on skin cancer types, detection, causes, and treatment.
Phone: 888-462-3376
Information on eye diseases and eye protection.
Phone: 415-561-8500
Online information about skin cancers, including images, videos, links to support groups, and skin cancer news.
Phone: 800-227-2345
Although primarily developed for medical oncologists (MDs), this website also has information on cancer tailored to patients.
An interactive atlas of clinical skin cancer photos. Helpful photos but somewhat difficult to navigate. Find the type of cancer under diagnosis, and then under diagnostic category, scroll through the options (malignant basal cell carcinoma/melanoma/squamous cell carcinoma).
Derm Net of New Zealand has skin cancer information and is an excellent resource for clinical photos of skin cancers, melanomas, and other skin diseases.
The website contains information on symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of skin cancers and melanoma, including helpful illustrations and photos of skin cancers.
Focuses on melanoma types, diagnosis, and treatment options.
Phone: 800-673-1280
The story of a 20-year-old girl who died from melanoma. The site contains information on melanoma and resources for those diagnosed with melanoma, including events, videos, and educational presentations by physicians for patients and their families.
Phone: (516) 877-2537
An excellent resource on basic skin cancer information, as well as detection, risk factors, treatment, and prevention.
Phone: 212-725-5176
Phone: 800-4-CANCER
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health. The website contains current information on all types of cancer. Information is tailored to both patients (patient versions) as well as to MDs and medical providers (professional versions).
The NLM contains links to publications, medlinePlus (see below), as well as educational resources on cancer.
Health information from the National Library of Medicine.
The NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine, and their website presents access to a variety of education materials on cancer and genetics, including booklets, videos, tutorials, webinars, and conferences.
Although this website focuses primarily on disease outbreaks and statistics in the U.S. and globally, there are links to skin cancer diagnosis, statistics, and prevention.
Phone: 800-232-4636
Has links to the UV (ultraviolet light) index and to sun safety.