Patient & Survivor Stories
The stories of patients and survivors are important reminders of why MRA is committed to ending death and suffering due to melanoma. These stories highlight the human impact of the research we support.
![Debra Black Founder of the Melanoma Research Alliance2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Debra-Black-Founder-of-the-Melanoma-Research-Alliance2.png)
Debra Black
Health Scare to Transformative Change
![Jamie Goldfarb Melanoma TIL Clinical Trial](/assets/Uploads/Jamie-Goldfarb-Melanoma-TIL-Clinical-Trial.jpg)
Jamie Troil Goldfarb
I’m Alive Today Because of Clinical Trials
![Keith Tolley Tackles Melanoma Gleevec](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Keith-Tolley-Tackles-Melanoma-Gleevec.png)
Keith Tolley
The Power of Family and Faith
![Uveal Melanoma Patient Advocate](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Uveal-Melanoma-Patient-Advocate.png)
Melody Burchett
From Anger to Hope – One Uveal Melanoma Patient’s Journey
![Libby News2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Libby-News2.jpg)
Libby Kistler
Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story
![Eric News2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Eric-News2.png)
Eric Martin
Melanoma is Determined, So is Eric
![Dylan Beats Depression and Skin Cancer2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Dylan-Beats-Depression-and-Skin-Cancer2.jpg)
Dylan Slattery
Overcoming Depression & Melanoma
![Ian Schuman4](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Ian-Schuman4.png)
Ian Schuman
To the Twilight Zone & Back
![Stefani Blog2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Stefani-Blog2.png)
Stefani Schuetz
Embrace Your Skin
![Jackie Larbecque2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Jackie-Larbecque2.png)
Jackie Labrecque
How Early Detection Saved My Life
![Ken Billett Melanoma2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Ken-Billett-Melanoma2.png)
Ken Billett
Living Life with Melanoma
![Kearney News2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Kearney-News2.png)
Jim Kearney
I Thought I Knew Myself, but I Missed It
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Bill Sandillo
The Hidden Costs of Cancer
![Gullery2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Gullery2.png)
Jonathan Gullery
Right Place, Right Time, Right Clinical Trial
![Melanoma Brain Mets Treatment3](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Melanoma-Brain-Mets-Treatment3.png)
Colleen Wittoesch
Fighting for Her Life with a Clinical Trial
![Kimberly Albertson4](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Kimberly-Albertson4.png)
Kimberly Albertson
Clinical Trials and a Leap of Faith
![Jacqueline Smith Faces Melanoma2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Jacqueline-Smith-Faces-Melanoma2.png)
Jacqueline Smith
Promise and Persistence Paid Off
![Dan Engel2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Dan-Engel2.png)
Dan Engel
Committed to Paying it Forward
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T.J. Sharpe
Seeing his Family Grow-Up
![Ali Young](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Ali-Young.png)
Ali Young
Invincible, Until You’re Not
![Bob Hill](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Bob-Hill.png)
Robert Hill
NeoAdjuvant Therapy in a Clinical Trial
![David faces acral melanoma2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/David-faces-acral-melanoma2.jpg)
David Marx
Acral Melanoma & Adjuvant Therapy
![Melanoma And Police2](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Melanoma-And-Police2.png)
Chris Eyrich
Police Lieutenant Tackles Melanoma
![Trena Brown](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Trena-Brown.png)
Trena Brown
An African-American Retiree's Journey
![Tara Miller](/assets/Uploads/Tara-Miller.png)
Tara Miller
Supporting Research in Tara's Memory
![Bob Hill](/assets/Uploads/_resampled/ScaleWidthWyIxMjAwIl0/Bob-Hill.jpg)
Robert “Bob” Hill
Bob Enrolls in Clinical Trial Testing NeoAdjuvant Therapy for Melanoma
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Patrick Rebholtz
From Dermatology to Treatment: Second Opinions, Clinical Trials & becoming Your Own Best Advocate