This summer, Charmaine Sherlock noticed a thin black line under her nail of her left thumb — what looked like a splinter growing from her cuticle. She thought perhaps she was having an autoimmune ...

Karolina Jasko has a family history of melanoma, so she's no stranger to paying attention to her skin. Her mother — who battled the deadliest form of skin cancer twice and recovered — has always been ...

"If it is a melanoma and it's undiagnosed, it's going to continue to progress," said Dr. Abby Waldman, the medical director of the Mohs and Dermatologic Surgery Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

A woman had a line on her nail that looked like a splinter, which was an aggressive skin cancer. Charmaine Sherlock didn't think that such a small mark could be as dangerous as melanoma. Sherlock told ...

While on the couch, Amy Jardon, then 40, felt an intense itching sensation between her toes. After scratching did little to ease the feeling, she pulled her sock off and look at her foot. There was a ...

Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky, whose medical TikToks have amassed 1.4 million followers, says everyone should check their nails regularly for brownish-yellow lines that extend across the nail. “This is the ...

Doctors are urging people to pay attention to subtle changes in their toenails and fingernails, as these could sometimes ...

Kelly Heather, 38, ended up needing brain surgery for a tumor — and it started as a discolored line on her fingernail Kelly Heather / SWNS (2) Kelly Heather, 38, first noticed a dark line on her ...

You’ve probably covered the basic things you can do to reduce your skin cancer risk: Wear sunscreen, avoid tanning beds, and get any suspicious moles checked out by a doctor. But no matter how ...

A genomic test co-developed by Mayo Clinic and SkylineDx can identify whether people with melanoma are at low or high risk for cancer in their lymph nodes—a finding that could guide treatment ...