Related Links

Partner Resources

• Federal Council on Skin Cancer Prevention is a group of federal agencies that focus on skin cancer prevention efforts for federal employees, their families, and agency constituents.



• National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Information on Melanoma includes information about detection, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of melanoma, as well as skin cancer statistics, research, and clinical trials.



• National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention is a group of organizations that coordinate nationwide skin cancer prevention efforts among health care researchers, practitioners, and associations. It produces a quarterly electronic newsletter called NEWSLINK.*



• The Global Solar UV Index, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in partnership with the National Weather Service (NWS), includes UV index forecasts for 58 U.S. cities from NWS and allows Internet users to check UV forecasts by ZIP code.

Screening Information

• USPSTF Skin Cancer Screening Recommendations
• Preventing Skin Cancer: Findings of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services on Reducing Exposure to Ultraviolet Light
• Counseling to Prevent Skin Cancer: Recommendations and Rationale of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• Guide to Community Preventive Services

Organizations

• American Academy of Dermatology*
• American Academy of Family Physicians*
• American Academy of Pediatrics*
• American Association for Health Education*
• American Cancer Society*
• American Public Health Association*
• American School Health Association*
• Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education*
• California Department of Health Services, Skin Cancer Prevention Program
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Healthy Youth
• Melanoma Research Foundation*
• National Association of School Nurses, Inc.*
• National Cancer Institute
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Melanoma Treatment Guidelines for Patients*
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Skin Cancer Foundation*
• Sun Safety Alliance*
• SunSafe Project, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School*

Skin Cancer Prevention Funded Projects

• Coalition for Skin Cancer Prevention in Maryland*

*Links to non-Federal organizations found at this site are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.