Sources
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Below is every authority this site cites, with one or two sentences on what we use it for. Any specific claim on the site links to one of these.
Public health and federal agencies
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
U.S. federal cancer authority. Source for staging, treatment summaries, and patient-facing PDQ content. The NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms is the source for every entry in our glossary.
NCI SEER Program
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program publishes the U.S. cancer statistics we use for survival figures (e.g., 5-year relative survival by stage).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Public-health prevention guidance, UV safety messaging, and skin cancer surveillance.
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
Federal directory of community health centers offering sliding-scale care for the uninsured or underinsured.
Clinical and professional bodies
American Academy of Dermatology (AAD)
The clinical authority on skin cancer recognition. Originator of the ABCDE framework, the SPOTme® free screening program, and Melanoma Monday itself.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
Treatment-guideline framing referenced via NCCN Guidelines for Patients (free, plain-language summaries of the same standards oncologists follow).
American Cancer Society (ACS)
Patient-facing overviews, treatment basics, and population statistics.
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Cancer.Net (ASCO's patient site) anchors several "questions to ask your doctor" templates.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Source for the global UV Index categories (Low / Moderate / High / Very High / Extreme) and the protection thresholds the UV widget on the home page uses.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Official U.S. registry of clinical trials, run by NLM at NIH. The trial finder queries its public v2 API directly from the visitor's browser.
Independent verification
If anything here contradicts a guideline from one of the organizations above, trust the organization, not us. Take any specific claim, search for it on cancer.gov or aad.org, and confirm it for yourself.