Please Explain: Melanoma

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
One in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer during the course of a lifetime, making it the most common form of cancer in the United States. We will learn about the disease's most serious form, melanoma, with Dr. Anna Pavlick, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Dermatology at New York University Medical Center, and Dr. Margaret Tucker, a melanoma researcher and Chief of the Genetic Epidemiology Branch at the National Institutes of Health.

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