Skin cancer runs in my family. My father, his sister and their father have all had melanoma as well as other nonmelanoma skin cancers. Fortunately, when caught early enough, a simple outpatient procedure can remove the spots and no further treatment is necessary, and they were all lucky enough to fall within this demographic.
I’ve been having regular body checks for skin cancer since I was a teenager. I’ve had more “pre-cancerous” spots removed from my body than I care to count, so I’ve gotten pretty good at pin-pointing the suspicious ones. In fact, once I located one that my primary care physician swore was fine. I pushed back and got a referral for a plastic surgeon, who reported that I had caught it just in time. It was one step away from becoming melanoma.
The moral of this story? Trust your instincts!
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