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Every year, the BAD holds the ‘Sun Awareness Week’ campaign. As part of this, we are looking for ‘case studies’ of people who have suffered from skin cancer to feature in media reports, to help raise awareness of the disease and to promote sun awareness.

(We are also looking for case studies of other skin diseases for different campaigns, so please do get in touch if you have a different disorder but are interested in media work)

Who can help

We are looking for people of all ages who can talk to a newspaper, magazine, TV or radio about their skin disorder.
For example, women aged 20 to 60 might be best placed talking to a suitable women’s magazine or perhaps a TV breakfast show, younger people to a teen magazine, while some people might be best featuring in their local newspaper or a radio station.
We will guide you through the process and make sure you are happy with the type of media we have in mind before organising anything.

How it works

1. Contact us with a brief outline of your case and how it has affected your life, as well as your age and contact details, and we will decide which media outlet or publication is best suited to your story. (Of course do please tell us if you have a specific media in mind or any preferences.)
   
2. We will then contact the relevant journalist with an outline of your case (you will not be named at this stage). 
   
3. If the publication is interested in running your story, we will contact you to ask if you are happy with this choice. The next step is to explain the finer details and put you in touch with the journalist. For print media, they are likely to also require a photo.

Please note that while we put you in contact with the journalist and help guide the article, the BAD has no ultimate control over the editorial content of media reports.
Some publications offer payment for case studies. While we can ask about payment, this is to be arranged directly between yourself and the magazine.

How to help

If you would like to help by featuring in a media report, please email nina@bad.org.uk or write FREE POST to:

Nina Goad
Freepost RLZA-RXYZ-KAUZ
British Association of Dermatologists,
4 Fitzroy Square,
London W1T 5HQ

Please include your name, age, contact details, skin disorder and a brief outline of how it has affected you.

By providing a media interview about skin cancer, you can help us to demonstrate how important sun awareness and mole monitoring are, and to educate people about the disease. We therefore wish to extend our warmest thanks to anyone who volunteers to help us with this project.

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your time!

For more information, please call Nina Goad on 020 7391 6355, or email nina@bad.org.uk

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