AIM at Skin Cancer Foundation hosting a walk for melanoma Saturday, May 18

We are fortunate to live with year-round sunshine but it does also increase our chances of developing skin cancer.
To help raise awareness and money for melanoma research, there's a walk happening on Saturday at Liberty Station.
"We all got sunburns growing up. She was diagnosed at 25, and passed away at 26," Sam Guild said. She lost her sister to skin cancer, far too young. It's what led their mom to start the AIM at Melanoma Foundation. This year marks their 20th anniversary.
"We're trying to raise awareness, for how people can prevent it," she said.
AIM has three major goals - to provide education and support for caregivers or those in treatment, raise funds for research to find a cure and public advocacy, by supporting legislation that helps prevent it all together.
"We have treatment options that are giving people the opportunity to live several years past their diagnosis, research that gives people quality of life, which my sister did not," Guild added.
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, claiming more than 8,000 lives annually in the U.S.
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