THE WASHINGTON BALLET IS ON ITS TOES WHEN IT COMES TO SKIN CANCER…

Dr.-Skelsey-Ballet-examines-armOn Friday, May 6, 2016, The Washington Ballet took a proactive approach to keeping its performers healthy by offering skin cancer screenings. Dr. Skelsey, who is a member of The Washington Ballet Board of Directors, performed the highly recommended, annual full body skin cancer screening on the dancers and other members of the ballet company utilizing new, state of the art, non-invasive, diagnostic technology, DermTech®. A simple adhesive patch is used to detect the presence of cancer in suspicious lesions.

The new Washington Ballet Health and Wellness Fund is committed to making services available to its dancers that protects their health, safety and wellbeing. Under the auspices of the health and Wellness Fund Dr. Maral Skelsey, a member of TWB board of directors, provided skin cancer screenings for the company during Melanoma Awareness Month in May.