September
2006
Planet Melanoma
Ok I’m ready to push this big time. I’ve created a blog syndication site which aims to be one central place to for blog content on skin cancer. Pulling in a wide variety of issues from the latest news on treatments and research, to advocacy and awareness, to peoples personal day to day expereinces, Planet Melanoma could easily give skin cancer bloggers an audience they might not have otherwise gained simply blogging on their own.
A planet is generally a geeky thing and seems to be one of these “micro formats” people keep talking about, but it aims to build a sense of community and act as a promotion platform for people publishing their own content through blogging, as well as being a place which takes the leg work of searching for these blogs yourself. Check out Planet Melanoma today, even if you don’t bookmark it you may know of someone who may be interested either in reading or adding their own blog to the planet.
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I was diagnosed with quite an agressive sounding form of the most serious form of skin cancer back in 2003. I posted my story here. I became frustrated that the information I gained to help prevent skin cancer, not only failed, but didn’t give me a chance to detect a problem early and my cancer went undetected for too long.
Eversince I have been seeking not only to raise awareness of the different types of skin cancer and why melanoma is different to the other skin cancers, but also to change opinion in how we tackle the problem of malignant melanoma. Current skin cancer awareness campaigns don’t go far enough and don’t equip people with the knowledge of what skin cancer looks like, so we can’t expect fatalities to fall untill we allow people, both in the general population and in the medical profession, to catch this disease early on, so moleaware.org aims to chage that and through blogging, is trying to build momentum behind getting people to check thier skin, not their sun protection factor.
