Archive for August 2015

Nevus Awareness

By Playdate Connection Admin | August 4, 2015

What is a Congenital Melanocytic Nevus? By Jaclyn Mandel with Get Goalden (www.getgoalden.com) A nevus is a birthmark. Nevus Outreach deals with large and giant congenital melanocytic nevi (GCMN). Large means, well, big! Congenital means it is present at birth. Melanocytic means that it is pigment-based. GCMN’s are thought to occur about once in every 500,000 births. Besides producing increased…