UV damage is sneaky! Even with daily sunscreen use, you could be exposing your skin to sun damage and increasing your risk of melanoma in ways you never imagined!

For instance, did you know that your mode of travel, that refreshing margarita or even your over-the-counter painkiller can cause damage in the sun? How about the fact that you can burn through your clothes? Class is in session! Dropping today, our latest episode of An Unexpected Life Podcast.

Claire Marie Foundation Chief Medical Advisor and Dermatologist Eva Simmons-O’Brien joins us with insights and simple solutions to make sure you are sensationally sun-safe!

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

✅ How to find the UV Index for your area

✅ Hidden Travel Sun Risks

✅ How to Keep From Burning Through Your Clothes

✅ Reality of “Margarita Burn” and Other Food Risks

✅ Drugs That Enhance Sun Sensitivity.

✅ Benefits of UPF 50 Clothing, Heliocare & SunPowder

✅ Melanoma Does Not Discriminate: Why Everyone is at Risk.

✅ Hormones and Genetics; Other Factors That Put You At Risk

Links

🔶 The Margarita Burn and Other Risks bit.ly/4usJ9bf

🔶 People of Color Do Get Melanoma bit.ly/4dS73qx

🔶 Why is Melanoma Striking So Many Young Men? bit.ly/42KhSF2

🔶 Risk of Tanning Beds: bit.ly/4t280kr

🔶 Heliocare https://heliocare.com/

🔶 SunPowder https://drinksunpowder.com/

🔶 The Risks of Spray Sunscreen bit.ly/4cmxTEi

🔶 Teen Cancer America; Support for Teens and Young Adults: https://teencanceramerica.org/

🔶 Ulman Foundation; Support for Teens and Young Adults: https://ulmanfoundation.org/

Claire Marie Foundation Mission

“ The Claire Marie Foundation provides clarity and hope in the fight against adolescent and young adult melanoma through awareness, education and prevention.

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When it comes to health, it seems everyone is looking for the next best thing! Some advances can save pain and money. Others may score high on the “hot tech” meter, but fall short in effectiveness. What works and what doesn’t, when it comes to tech in melanoma diagnosis? In this episode, Marianne Banister turned to Dermatologist and Medical Advisor to the Claire Marie Foundation, Dr. Diane Orlinsky, M.D., F.A.A.D to help us sort it all out!

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

✅ How a new genetic test can determine the aggressiveness of melanoma and if it will spread.

✅ How a new AI device can help physicians in rural areas pinpoint melanoma risk.

✅ The ineffectiveness of whole body mole mapping and high out-of-pocket costs.
✅ Dermascopy versus new technology. Which is best?

✅ Are genomic home-testing skin strips effective in diagnosing melanoma and skin cancer?

✅ What age should you begin annual skin checks?

✅ How to advocate for yourself with a dermatologist

✅ How to find a gold-standard dermatologist

Links

🔶 Decision DX-Melanoma Test https://www.castlebiosciences.com/melanomatest

🔶 DermaSensor: https://www.dermasensor.com/

🔶 How Dermatologists Use Dermascopy: bit.ly/4dD6VtZ

🔶 DermTech: https://dermtech.com/

🔶 ExoPatch: bit.ly/3RzcnGI

🔶 ChatGPT is Not A Dermatologist: bit.ly/4pwklfT

🔶 How To Find The Best Dermatologist: bit.ly/3Pzccuk

Claire Marie Foundation Mission
“ The Claire Marie Foundation provides clarity and hope in the fight against adolescent and young adult melanoma through awareness, education and prevention.

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Hey everyone! In this week’s episode, we are worked up a bit. Nearly 400,000 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer globally this year.

That means every three minutes, a parent is told their child has cancer. Still, only 4% of federal funding goes to research pediatric cancers; 96% are designated to save adult lives. And with ongoing cuts instigated by the Trump administration, it’s getting even worse.

This week, we dive deep into the fight for children’s cancer funding. Why is it so challenging, and what can be done? Our guests are Tasha Museles, President of the Children’s Cancer Foundation, and Dr. Robyn Gartrell M.D., a Pediatric Oncologist and Research Physician with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

✅ Why children are excluded from drug trials and why that’s problematic.

✅ What Pharma has to do with it! How pharmaceutical companies prioritize adult cancers where there is higher profitability.

✅ The value and challenge of philanthropy. Why nonprofit and private donors are essential.
✅ What are “Life Years Lost” and its impact on children.

✅ The future of research for pediatric and adolescent cancers.

✅ What you can do.

Links

🔶 Research IS the Answer / Children’s Cancer Foundation: bit.ly/4ezRl4t

🔶 More Than Physical / The Mental Impact of Childhood Cancer: https://bit.ly/42TPBvu

🔶 Remember: Kids Count Too / Fight for Cancer Research: bit.ly/4dzWC9Z

🔶 Teen Cancer America; Support for Teens and Young Adults: https://teencanceramerica.org/

🔶 Ulman Foundation; Support for Teens and Young Adults: https://ulmanfoundation.org/

Claire Marie Foundation Mission

“ The Claire Marie Foundation provides clarity and hope in the fight against adolescent and young adult melanoma through awareness, education and prevention.

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