Free skin cancer screenings this week in Colorado (see link for detail)
Boulder 6/3/09
Aurora 6/4/09
Lakewood 6/6/09
Littleton 6/7/09
This blog is intended to compliment our websites devoted to Tiffany "sportbikegirl" Weirbach who was an avid motorcycle enthusiast before succumbing to melanoma cancer in 2001. If it's in the news and it's about melanoma you'll most likely find it here, and if you don't, let us know.
Woman Battles Melanoma In Real-Life 'Grey's Anatomy' Story
Naomi Williams, 29, was watching a recent episode of the ABC hospital drama Grey's Anatomy, on which Katherine Heigl's character, Izzy Stevens, is battling advanced skin cancer but had to stop because her own experience with skin cancer was still too fresh to endure seeing it unfold on screen."The timing is very surreal," said Williams, who lives in Jacksonville, Fla. "It was really intense... too difficult to watch for me."Like Heigl's character, Williams was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma -- the most serious type of skin cancer -- about one month ago. The cancer was discovered after she broke a bone in her back bending down to put a plug in a socket. Subsequent tests revealed that she had cancer in her bones and her lungs."That was the red flag that started it all," Williams said of her bone fracture. "The question was, why are you 29 and healthy and having a bone fracture? The diagnosis was malignant melanoma but they can't find anything on my skin to show that it's melanoma."