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Melanoma is one of the fastest growing cancers in the U.S.

Melanoma is the most common form of cancer for young adults 25-29 years old.

Pediatric cases of melanoma increased by 30% over the last 10 years.

What can we do about it?

The Problem

Melanoma researchers don’t have the fresh-frozen, primary tissue they need to make the type of progress we’ve seen in breast and prostate cancer research.

The Solution

Fact: We need your help to build a National Melanoma Tissue Bank that will further melanoma research and help develop new treatments.

The Bank

A national Melanoma Tissue Bank of annotated fresh-frozen primary melanoma tissue is the fundamental tool that does not exist yet for public or private research.

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Our Founder’s Story

On January 8, 2012, I became a Stage IV melanoma patient who had miraculously survived seven years and counting, after seven clinical trials and seven brain surgeries. Few, if any of us, thought back in 2005 when I was first diagnosed and told I had a 15% chance of surviving five years that I would be here more than seven years later.

My hope is that melanoma research can be fast-tracked through a national bank of melanoma tissue from primary tumors. Such a bank will lead to collaborative work on new or competing lines of research that defy prior obstacles, which often must favor securing research budgets over advancing science.
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