MEDIA ALERT: Melanoma Network of Canada Brings Education and Solutions to Queen's Park on Monday, May 28

TORONTO, May 24, 2012 /CNW/ - For the past 30 years, awareness of melanoma has been very low and a lack of new research and innovation has left melanoma patients in Ontario with limited options for care. But new ways to address critical patient care issues, such as banning indoor tanning for anyone under the age of 18 and providing access to breakthrough treatments, are bringing hope to Ontarians with this deadly disease.

To raise awareness of melanoma with Ontario MPPs and to discuss ways to better support the melanoma community in this province, which has the highest rates of melanoma per capita across the country, the Melanoma Network of Canada will host Melanoma Awareness Day at Queen's Park on Monday, May 28, 2012.

What:	Melanoma Awareness Day
Where:	Queen's Park
When:	Monday, May 28, 2012

The following spokespeople are available for interview:

• Annette Cyr, Chair, Melanoma Network of Canada
• Dr. Anthony Joshua, Melanoma Medical Oncologist
• Kate Neale, a 22-year-old former tanning bed user who is living with melanoma
• Susan Cox, a 50-year-old woman living with BRAF positive metastatic melanoma

  

For further information about melanoma, visit: http://melanomanetwork.ca

To book an interview, please contact:

Candice Bruton
[email protected]
416-849-8938