The Melanoma International Foundation (MIF) has been an excellent source of information for me since I was diagnosed with melanoma at the end of 2011. Clearly anybody receiving this life changing diagnosis will appreciate the supportive community available through the MIF, but the first thing that the MIF helped me to do was to actualy understand my diagnosis by explaining details included in biopsy reports (details which, I'm sorry to say, many doctors have a hard time explaining) and what this meant for the future. The MIF website is the most informative place I managed to find on the internet. It gave me the support (encouragement, information, hope and strength) I desperately needed at a very difficult time in my life.