LIFE-SAVING MELANOMA MIRACLES
For years, there was little, if anything, doctors could offer for advanced or spreading melanoma, the potentially fatal form of skin cancer.
But that was then.
“The landscape has totally changed and for the first time we have been able to essentially cure metastatic disease. What was once fatal now has real hope,†says Mona Mofid, MD, FAAD, Medical Director, American Melanoma Foundation and a dermatologist in San Diego, Calif.
Take former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, for example, she says. Diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in his ninth decade, he is now cancer-free. “I personally have four patients who had metastatic disease in the brain or lung whose melanoma is
MEET DR. MONA MOFID: LA JOLLA SKIN CANCER EXPERT
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Mona Mofid, MD, is not your typical dermatologist – and that’s what makes her one of the greats. The La Jolla, Calif-based skin care expert doesn’t know how to inject botulinum toxin, and has no interest in learning. Instead, Mofid is all about preventing and treating skin cancer.
Mofid, who is known as Dr. Mona, received her medical degree at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed her training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. During her training, a multidisciplinary melanoma group convened weekly – and that group as well as the patients that the team treated – are what inspired her to devote much of her practice to preventing and
START YOUR KIDS OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT
FACT: You can get skin cancer on your feet.
FACT: Exposure to sun’s ultraviolet rays is one of the leading causes of skin cancer, and children are especially at risk. Just one blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a person’s chances of developing potentially fatal melanoma later in life.
Many parents make sure to buy rash guard clothing with sun protection factor (SPF) built in for their kids and fastidiously apply and reapply sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher on their faces and bodies, but what about their feet?
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