There’s Good News: Project Happy Face returns to Bend Farmers Market with mobile dermatology clinic

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- There's Good News today, and it has to do with being proactive. Right now, it's Melanoma Awareness Month.

Throughout May, Project Happy Face is once again bringing its mobile dermatology clinic to the Bend Farmers Market, to offer free skin cancer screenings, biopsies if needed, and treatment for precancerous lesions to farmers market vendors.

Farmers and other food producers spend long hours working outdoors and often put their own healthcare on the back burner, so this is a pretty special effort to bring care directly to the people who help feed our community.

Last year, one melanoma was caught at the market, which really speaks to how important this work is.