Checked your skin lately?

[Edbear]

Our daughter was doing my wife's hair and found a couple of spots on her scalp. My wife has always had a fear of cancer as other family members have died from or dealt with one form or other. She has had a few small spots burnt off her hands and face over the years so is naturally sensitive and was immediately thinking the worst.

I had been discussing with her the suggestion we should both have a check up as it had been a few years since the last checks and we are children of the 60's and 70's when getting a tan was considered necessary and the darker the better.

We are privileged to have a local Dr. who is a skin cancer specialist and I booked us an appointment for this afternoon. Good news was we were both given a clean bill of health with nothing of concern so my dear wife was incredibly relieved!

Please everyone, do keep an eye on this issue, the Doc has seen too much tragedy and wishes all were proactive in getting themselves checked before something gets serious.

[Usarka]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

[SMOKEU]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

It might pay to get it checked out. http://dermatology.about.com/od/mela...s/ABCD_SBS.htm

http://www.ehow.com/how_4918218_spot...ous-moles.html

[Zamiam]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

You most certainly can. Get to a doctor and get a mole map done.

[SMOKEU]

Get to a doctor and get a mole map done.

Either that or cut it out with a knife. You'll be surprised at how much you can learn from watching surgery videos on Youtube and bestgore.

[Virago]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

Jeez, are you the only person alive who hasn't seen this?

[Edbear]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

You most certainly can. Get to a doctor and get a mole map done.

Yup! Don't wait.

[Katman]

Can you die from melanoma?

I've got a mole thats gone white/red/lumpy and occasionally sore on my leg but can't be arsed seeing about it.

Nah, you just got a mosquito bite on your mole.

[TrentNz]

i got really sunburnt a few years back, got sun stroke and had blisters the size of 50c coins on my back.
cant be arsed getting a check up but got no moles.
should still probably go.. but when i can be fucked.

[nzspokes]

Dont muck around with it. I had 3 cut out of my back that were bad. Yes it will kill you.


From memory thats what got John Brittan.

[rickstv]

It's as simple as getting a friend, brother, sister, wife or husband, anyone, to have a quick look at your back. anything new or changing shape or colour should be looked at pronto.

If the doctor says it's ok, thats good. But get someone to take a good clear photo of your back so that you have a record of all the moles on your back. refer to it every month or two so that any changes will be picked up quickly.

Every visit to the doctor should include a mole check.

I've lost count of the number of bits I have had cut out, all because I wanted a tan when I was a teenager back in the late sixties.
Rick.

[hellokitty]

My friend's father died from Melanoma, he also had half his nose removed and had to wear a prosthetic nose. Truly horrific for everyone involved and possibly avoidable

[pete376403]

Melanoma killed John Britten, and it will kill you too, given half a chance.

[Edbear]

i got really sunburnt a few years back, got sun stroke and had blisters the size of 50c coins on my back.
cant be arsed getting a check up but got no moles.
should still probably go.. but when i can be fucked.

By the time you do you might be...

[ynot slow]

By the time you do you might be...

Sobering thought,and true,I met a lady in her 40's when having my very first round of chemo in Nov 2003,she was similar to all of us back then,no or very little sinscreen used in 70's and 80's,she had waited too long to check out melanoma and died within 3 months of having surgery and chemo.