As you go about your routine skin-cancer checks to spot abnormal moles or dark spots, there's one place you should be sure to look: your fingernails. As you go about your routine skin-cancer checks to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...