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Skin Cancer Spot Check

AKsuited

AKsuited

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I've got one coming on this Friday.

Check out the indications of a skin cancer here: https://www.skincancer.org/

I've had 9 basal cell skin cancers. My younger brother Robert had a melanoma on his forehead in his 20's. It was successfully treated and he is still with us. That raised my awareness of skin cancer.

Our parents took us to the beach on the south shore of Long Island when we were children and we got sunburned multiple times which raised our likelihood of getting skin cancer. All of my siblings and myself have had multiple skin cancers. A lot of is also ethnic risk - Irish and Scottish in particular are more vulnerable. Besides sunburns as a child, I spent a lot of time outdoors as a caddy while in high school and then later as a construction engineer on road and bridge construction projects.

I lost a good friend to melanoma. I worked with the guy and he should have taken a lesson from my bouts with basal cell skin cancer, but he didn't and his life was cut short. Melanoma can be cured but it has to be found early.

Get checked out.

Harry
 
I get an annual check up with my dermatologist. He just removed another Basal Cell recently. The docs don't get too fussed about them, however.

The consequence of decades of skiing and hiking without adequate protection.
 
I see the VA derm doctor twice a year. Since moving to Az., I've had a bunch of stuff burned/cut off my face/arms/back
 
Thanks for the reminder Harry.

We go yearly but appointments hard to secure currently. Yeah, youth, thirty years of line work, and an outdoor lifestyle did me no favors. My dad added years of sailing to his list of causations and was at the dermatologist a lot in his later years.
 
Another one of my buddies from work (I am retired now) did see a dermatologist. He had melanoma which was treated in time. That's the main point I was making - dying from melanoma is tragic since most of the time it could have been cured fairly easily if caught in time. And melanoma is not rare.

I am seeing a new dermatologist Friday. It's kind of sad when the thing I look forward to is a spot-check from a dermatologist. At least I found one who would see me. You can't do a spot-check in a Zoom appointment...

I did have a basal cell on my forehead a few years back. The surgery site was very sore, and swelling made it painful to wear a helmet. Talk about a hot spot on your forehead. It was weeks before I could comfortably wear my helmet again. So you may want to make sure you don't have any skin cancers well before riding season. Most of my surgeries have been "Mohs" surgeries where lab work is done on the tissue removed and the margins are determined to be clear before closing the wound. And skin cancer is such a growth industry (pardon the pun) that it can take months to get in for a Mohs surgery.

Harry
 
AKsuited said:
Another one of my buddies from work (I am retired now) did see a dermatologist. He had melanoma which was treated in time. That's the main point I was making - dying from melanoma is tragic since most of the time it could have been cured fairly easily if caught in time. And melanoma is not rare.

I am seeing a new dermatologist Friday. It's kind of sad when the thing I look forward to is a spot-check from a dermatologist. At least I found one who would see me. You can't do a spot-check in a Zoom appointment...

I did have a basal cell on my forehead a few years back. The surgery site was very sore, and swelling made it painful to wear a helmet. Talk about a hot spot on your forehead. It was weeks before I could comfortably wear my helmet again. So you may want to make sure you don't have any skin cancers well before riding season. Most of my surgeries have been "Mohs" surgeries where lab work is done on the tissue removed and the margins are determined to be clear before closing the wound. And skin cancer is such a growth industry (pardon the pun) that it can take months to get in for a Mohs surgery.

Harry
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That is what I had on my forehead and cheek and Mohs surgery did the job.:clap
 
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