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Young Adults with Melanoma
430 members
Welcome to the Young Adults with Melanoma community, a place where you can access peer to peer support from others affected by melanoma.
Melanoma Wellness Canada
87 members
Melanoma Wellness Canada is a group created and maintained by the Canadian melanoma patient group Save Your Skin Foundation. It exists as a place for patients and caregivers touched by melanoma skin cancer to connect and share resources. We strive to support overall wellness for melanoma. Wellness is about more than just the absence of physical illness. Working towards wellness encourages us to work towards complete health. We believe that emotional wellness fosters physical wellness and physical wellness increases our emotional wellness. Team members of Save Your Skin Foundation will facilitate the page, but this is your space; please feel free to share, as long as it is relevant to the group and respectful. This may include your experience with melanoma, or any other articles or resources you feel the rest of the group could benefit from.
Melanoma UK
181 members
We are an online support community for melanoma patients and carers committed to promoting discuss and caring between patients. Join us to share your experiences, ask questions and support one another!The community is run by Melanoma UK.
Melanoma Caregivers
284 members
Welcome to the Melanoma Caregiver community, a place where you can access peer to peer support. We are the partners, parents, children and other loved ones to people who have been diagnosed with melanoma. We're here to listen, to offer advice and to generally provide support to one another.
Melanoma Support Ireland
42 members
Melanoma Support Ireland is a Peer led support organisation. We were set up by a group of Irish melanoma patients who wish to offer and gain support from others patients or family members living with a diagnosis of melanoma in Ireland. We do not offer medical advice but we welcome you to share your experiences in our group. Peer support is incredibly important for patients and can help cope with feelings of isolation and fear especially when dealing with a diagnosis of cancer. We look forward to interacting with you and encourage you to share your experiences and any links you may have that will help support our members. Any information provided on the forum needs to be from a verifiable scientifically proven source as we do not allow posts about alternative unproven cures in our group.
Skin Cancer UK
447 members
WE ARE SKCIN.· The UK’s national melanoma and skin cancer charity dedicated to raising awareness through education to promote the prevention and early detection of skin cancer, to improve prognosis and save lives. With 86% of all skin cancers preventable and early diagnosis vital, education is key to combating the soaring rates of skin cancer in the UK. We focus on pioneering, proactive intervention on a national scale with targeted, bespoke, educational accreditation programmes that are accessible, impactful and measurable. Our work supports the call from public health as to who is most effective to help improve the nation’s health, addresses concerns raised in the Government’s 2020 Skin Cancer Vision and helps combat the huge financial burden that is estimated, by 2020, to cost the NHS over £180 million annually. Together, we can make a difference and save lives.
Changing Faces
3,150 members
This community is for the 1.3 million people in the UK with a visible difference, from a mark, scar or condition that makes them look different. We provide advice, support and psycho-social services to children, young people and adults. We challenge discrimination and we campaign for Face Equality: a world that truly values and respects people who look different We want a future where everyone with a visible difference on their face or body has the confidence, support and opportunity to lead the lives they want. If you would like to talk to someone, Changing Faces offers the Support and Information Line in the UK, for people affected by any visible difference caused by a mark, scar or condition, whether on the face or body, and families and friends. To get in touch with us, please follow this link: https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/services-support/support-information-line/