Find support, or help research
People near you who know what living with Melanoma is like, and ways you can help find better treatments.
Support groups in Germany
- Deutsche KrebshilfeGerman non-profit cancer charity providing information on cancer types, early detection, prevention, therapy and self-help, and funding research and patient support.All of Germany
- Hautkrebs-Netzwerk Deutschland e.V.German skin cancer patient network, national member of Melanoma Patient Network Europe.All of Germany
- Melanom Info Deutschland - MID e.V.Patient organisation for people with skin cancer and uveal melanoma and their relatives, offering information, online groups and local self-help groups.All of Germany
- Selbsthilfe Hautkrebs BerlinBerlin skin cancer self-help group run by patients for patients since 1998.All of Germany
- Selbsthilfegruppe Hautkrebs BuxtehudeLocal skin cancer self-help group for Buxtehude and Stade, listed by Melanoma Patient Network Europe.All of Germany
Contact details come from each group's own page and are checked every 3 months.
Help research
You do not need to join a trial to help. Below are the programmes we found in Germany and how to reach them. You contact them yourself: Frontlight does not collect or pass on your details.
Give blood or tissue for researchResearchers use stored samples to find what causes Melanoma.
Share your health dataA registry collects health data, without your name, so research teams can study many people at once.
Take part as a healthy volunteerStudies need people without Melanoma to compare with. Family and friends can help.