The
Skin Cancer Foundation is the only national and international organization
that is concerned exclusively with the world's most common malignancy
-- cancer of the skin. The incidence and mortality of skin cancer have
increased exponentially during the past several decades, and every year
the figure mounts. The mission of this non-profit Foundation is:
- to control the epidemic
- to prevent skin cancers through public education campaigns about the need for sun protection all year around from birth to old age
- to change public attitudes towards tanning and sun exposure
- to encourage detection of skin cancers at the earliest stage when they are almost always curable
- to improve skin cancer care by offering physician education and training programs
- to support research into new diagnostic techniques and therapies
- to focus attention on melanoma, the most life-threatening of the skin cancers
- to teach children and their caregivers about the sun, as 80% of our lifetime sun exposure occurs before the age of 18
- to encourage community action
- to stimulate public education programs abroad
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