New spots and lesions appearing on your skin, especially after sun exposure, can be alarming. While often harmless age spots, these pigmented areas could also signal melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

A simple brown streak on her nail turned out to be something far more dangerous than this woman could have ever imagined. Lauren Koltcz, a busy mom from Ohio, discovered a brown streak on her ...

An American woman discovered she had melanoma when she noticed an unusual change in her thumbnail. Lauren Koltcz observed a peculiar alteration to her nail, saying: "It started out as a tiny little ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An estimated one in five Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer in their lifetime, and one person dies from melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer - every hour. There have ...

Maryland resident James Riordan assumed the mole on his cheek was harmless until his wife pointed it out and encouraged him to have it examined. "I pointed it out to my dermatologist, and she probably ...