Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

The Breslow thickness describes how deep a melanoma has grown into the layers of skin. Doctors need to know the depth of a melanoma to help stage it. The stage tells you the size of a cancer and if it ...

Why Do You Need Benadryl for Dogs? Dogs are curious and energetic, so it’s inevitable that some of them will wind up in some sticky situations. From running through some poison ivy to getting ...

Uveal melanoma is a type of cancer that develops in the middle layer of your eye called the uvea. It can cause symptoms like blurry vision, floaters, or loss of vision. Melanoma is a type of ...

From there, it was just a few millenniums to puppy yoga and dog influencers. But the details of exactly how and when wolves were tamed and domesticated remain up for intense debate. “There’s ...

With a population over 15 million, Baladi dogs are everywhere—and often mistreated or killed. But that’s starting to change. The Egyptian god Anubis is often shown with the head of a dog in ...

1Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois. 2Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

If you watched the Superman teaser trailer and thought, Wait, Superman has a dog now?, yes: The Man of Steel has had a furry best friend, Krypto, since 1955. The red-caped white dog has just been left ...

A PET scan can help doctors spot cancer that has spread through the body. A doctor may request one during the melanoma diagnostic process if they suspect advanced melanoma cancer. A PET scan is an ...

“Below Deck Down Under” star Jason Chambers has been diagnosed with melanoma. The 52-year-old reality star publicly revealed his health news in an Instagram video on Monday. “Update on the ...

While the film took home the 2024 Un Certain Regard award at Cannes, in a just world, the canine cast would have been the recipients of an ensemble prize for its Palm Dog Award. The film's human ...

Melanoma skin cancer in situ is also called stage 0 melanoma skin cancer. This means there are cancer cells only in the top layer of skin (the epidermis). Surgery is the main treatment for melanoma in ...