Morsani College of Medicine

Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery

Archive for the Melanoma Category

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month
May 2, 2013

By: Brendan McLaughlin TAMPA – The broad expanse of 63-year-old Richard Partyka’s back is a rough neighborhood, covered with scar tissue from his many run-ins with with Dr. Christopher Nelson. “These are where he had spots cut out.  This was the melanoma,” said Dr. Nelson, USF’s director of dermatology research clinic, pointing out the healed incisions on Partyka’s freckled skin. […]

Detecting Melanoma in darker complexions
July 29, 2010

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/doctor_jo/detecting-melanoma-in-darker-complexions-07272010

New cancer drug
June 8, 2010

New cancer drug.