Our Mission

Our mission is to help early detection, prevention, and to increase awareness of current treatments that are available for Melanoma. Melanoma accounts for 3% of all skin cancer cases, but is responsible for the most skin cancer deaths. “Treatment of melanoma continues to evolve as medicine advances, but today, the best plan remains prevention and early detection,” notes Curtis Raskin, M.D. dermatologist on staff at John Muir Medical Center – Concord, CA. Campus.

Educating people at an early stage is important to prevent the disease. This means discussing the disease with children before they expose themselves to the harmful rays of the sun. Learning what the industry calls the A B C D’s; Asymmetry, Border, Color, and Diameter can easily be taught to your children to inspect their own skin on a regular basis.

Having a comprehensive source of information for people to frequent and conduct their own research is a valuable tool. The mission of the SCARF website is to enable the end-user who is not familiar with skin cancer at all, to be able to self-educate and conduct their own research.

In the coming months, this website will under go a variety of changes. This site was originally intended to communicate to friends and family about the progress of Sherri's fight with her melanoma that started in 1997. When her cancer returned in November of 2005, her determination and passion to fight her disease never stopped. In an effort to carry on Sherri's legacy, her oncology nursing and passion for life, SCARF will represent her love and passion for life and living...

To be a single resource organization for any age audience to read, learn and educate themselves on self examinations, detection of melanoma, and gain assistance on treatments available for their specific phase of cancer to help prevent the spread of this malignant cancer.