Preventing Skin Cancer Through Education
About This Event
Date: Earth Day, April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:30-4pm
Location: Puopolo Park, North EndCommercial StreetBoston, Massachusetts
Event Description
More than one million Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer this year and one in five Americans will be diagnosed with skin cancer during their lifetime — skin cancer affects people of all skin types!
Join Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the City of […]
Bostonians to Get Shade, Sunscreen and Education to Fight Skin Cancer as Boston Becomes a Model SunWise Community
Boston, Mass. — On Earth Day, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson joined Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and SHADE Foundation of America founder Shonda Schilling to recognize Boston as a SunWise Community.
Mayor Menino proclaimed April 22, “SunWise Day” in Boston […]
By Jessica Hackett
After Shonda Schilling’s doctor told her she had melanoma, she said she walked out of the office and still wanted to tan.
Schilling, wife of Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, told Stonehill College students Tuesday, April 1, she did not understand the seriousness of her skin cancer, but after four surgeries and a number of permanent […]