skin cancer

Lawmakers unanimously passed the skin-cancer screening bill after limiting it to state employees. The governor also signed a bill that designates April as “Hot Car Death Prevention Month.”

Lawmakers are poised to make it easier and cheaper for Florida residents to undergo potentially lifesaving skin cancer screenings by ensuring that all costs are covered by health insurance.

The bill would require insurance to cover skin cancer screenings and would bar imposing deductibles, co-payments or other types of cost-sharing requirements on patients.

A bipartisan bill proposing full insurance coverage of skin cancer screenings died in the Florida Senate, despite melanoma cases and deaths rising.

On this episode, we talk about the factors that increase the risk of skin cancer in people with darker skin tones.

Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden's longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” during the president's routine physical on Feb. 16.

The first lady's experience could inject new purpose into what has become part of her life's work highlighting research into curing cancer and urging people to get regular screenings.

When first lady Jill Biden went for routine surgery for a small lesion above her right eye, doctors found two more lesions, and removed them, too, the White House said.

The drugmakers said a combination of the vaccine and Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda led to a statistically significant improvement in survival before the cancer returned in patients with advanced melanoma.

Historically neglected by sunscreen manufacturers and a medical community lagging in diversity and cultural competency, many people with dark skin tones have not been informed about sun safety or how to monitor their skin for damage or cancer.