The Friday before Memorial Day has been named “Don’t Fry Day” to encourage sun safety awareness and to remind everyone to protect their skin while enjoying the outdoors. To help reduce rising rates of skin cancer caused by overexposure to the ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the sun and tanning beds, practice the ACE message:

A - Avoid too much UVR

C - Cover-Up with clothing and sunscreen

E - Examine your skin regularly for new or changing spots

Watch the video on the difference between sunscreen types! 

Click the link below to see presentations from the UA Cancer Center

Collaborative Cancer Grand Rounds.

• UACC Skin Cancer Institute as A Model for Skin Cancer Prevention

  • Dr. Robin Harris PhD, MPH Chair, Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Deputy Director, Skin Cancer Institute, University of Arizona

• Targeted Prevention and Early Noninvasive Diagnosis: Why Here and Now

  • Dr. Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski MD Assistant Professor of Dermatology; Director, Pigmented Lesion Clinic; Co-Director, Oncology Program, Arizona Cancer Center

We are half way through the month of September and we still need your help raising funds to continue our mission to prevent and cure skin cancer!

The Fight Against Melanoma crowdfunding event has raised $4,335 so far. 

Our teams and supporters are doing great!

We just posted a short video covering the latest updates on sunscreen.

Thank you!



We're doing great! We've raised $2,690 so far. 

Thank you all our teams and other supporters in the community.

Enjoy the added video of one of our SCI executive members and long time supporters, Dr. Lois Loescher, talking about her innovative research in massage therapy and melanoma detection. 

A big "Thank You" to Desert Toyota of Tucson for doing this interview for us!

Your gift, no matter how large or small, makes all the difference to our mission to prevent and cure skin cancer. Your kind donations go toward:

Project Students Are Sun Safe (SASS) which teaches University of Arizona students sun safety so they can go into middle schools and high schools and teach the messages to our future generations.

The Hats ON program is putting sun safe hats on babies and children in our community.

The Protect Your Skin Program helps our community be sun safe by offering sunscreen dispensers to businesses.

Seed grants help our researchers continue striving to find new treatments and detection strategies for skin cancer.