As summer approaches, UPMC is highlighting the importance of skin checks to catch and reduce your risk of melanoma.

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in the United States. Melanoma is the least common type of skin cancer, but it’s the most lethal. Almost 105,000 Americans get melanoma every ...

Uveal melanoma, or ocular melanoma, is a cancer that happens inside your eyeball. It’s rare. Just 7 out of every 1 million people get it each year. But it’s also the most common eye cancer for adults.

Because the immune system resides beneath the skin's barrier, the initial cellular mutation caused by UV light occurs before ...

Most often, skin cancer on the arm is a basal cell or squamous cell cancer or melanoma. Basal and squamous cell skin cancers are common and highly curable. Melanoma is less common and more likely to ...

Melanoma recurrence is predicted with 78%-94% accuracy by matching gut microbiomes to geographic regions, allowing for ...