In September of last year, Ohio mum Michelle Tagliamonte looked down at her hands and noticed something odd about one of her fingernails. Little did she know, however, that just weeks after spotting ...

A woman observed two black lines on her thumb during a normal nail treatment, which resulted in a startling health finding. After initially ignoring the faint spots, Michelle Tagliamonte, 58, of Ohio, ...

Ohio Woman’s Nail Appointment Reveals Early-Stage Melanoma An woman’s routine nail appointment led to a shocking health discovery when she noticed two black lines on her thumb. Michelle Tagliamonte, ...

Subtle signs of skin cancer you shouldn't ignore When the weather gets warmer and daylight hours longer, people are more likely to spend time outdoors in the sun. This also means there’s an increased ...

Hint: It often shows up where the sun doesn’t shine. A guide to self-checking Black skin.By Brian VinesMaya Angelou has long been credited with saying, “Do the best you can until you know ...

this black line in my nail was coming from inside the growth plate down from inside my nail.” The cause was melanoma — which VeryWell Health explains is “not as common as other forms of skin ...

Related: Mom's Stage 4 Melanoma Spread from Fingernail to Brain, Says She 'Begged for' Scans That Could Have Caught It Sooner Tagliamonte went to a dermatologist, who told her the “discoloration at ...

A dark spot under his toenail that Marley believed to ... Recognizing that Black people tend to get melanoma on body parts that solar rays don’t typically reach is important, but dark-skinned ...

"The melanoma was in the growth plate [in my ... Lord only knows what the future could hold." A black line on your nail could be down to something simple like a splinter haemorrhage - however ...

"I found out around Thanksgiving that it was melanoma. "What the dermatologist was seeing was discoloration at the base of my thumb nail and whatever was causing this black line in my nail was ...