OHSU PDX Skincare Festival aims to celebrate — and protect — your skin

Annual community event will offer free skin cancer exams, samples and services from skin care professionals, and a 5K Walk or Fun Run to benefit melanoma research

By Amanda Gibbs May 14, 2018 Portland, Oregon

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War on Skin Cancer 2016

The 2016 War on Skin Cancer Event, held at the Collaborative Life Sciences Building in Portland, May 21, 2016. (OHSU/Patrick Kinghorn)

War on Skin Cancer 2017

A participant gives a thumbs-up during the 6th Annual NW Melanoma 5K Walk and Fun Run, May 20, 2017. All proceeds from the walk support the Melanoma Tissue Bank Consortium. (OHSU/Patrick Kinghorn)

Dr. Sancy Leachman

Dr. Sancy Leachman, at an OHSU clinic in 2015. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., performs a skin check.

Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., performs a skin check on an OHSU patient in 2015. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)