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Skin Cancer
Archives for November 2011
Discussion List
Melanoma-specific support program
I'm born and raised in Jersey, but am the furthest thing from a beach bum that you can get. I'm neon white; I think about sun and I burn (thank you, Irish heritage). I've worn SPF 100 sunscreen every day, year round since my husband was diagnosed with melanoma on November 23, 2005 (it killed him on April 17, 2008). I've…
Suqamous Cell
Anybody ever heard of squamous cell in the ear? I had Mohs last year on my nose. Now I have the same scaly patch in my ear. It started out like a pimple about 2 months ago, now it's getting bigger. Am going to make an appointment but it just seems odd to have it in the ear.
Ultraviolet Radiation levels where you live
As we all know (or should know) Ultraviolet Radiation (UV) from the sun can damage the skin and lead to skin cancer. Now there is a useful (Free) resource that gives you a five day forecast of UV levels wherever you are in the world. You can find it on the 'Links' page at: http://www.basalcellcarcinoma.info It could just…
Worry about daughters
My family has history with Kidney, Breast, Lung and Head/Neck Cancers (my mom and grandparents) my Ex's mother passed last year from Metastatic Melanoma Stage IV (DX because of pain in bones at shoulder area) kept giving her pain meds and pain meds and a second opinion gave Cancer DX. It was in her bones, lungs, one other…
Severe Atypia result from biopsy
Hi all! I've recently had a number of moles removed and I'm really concerned about the results. I had 2 moles removed in Aug and one came back with a report of severe atypia. My Dr did a re-excision of the area and removed two more suspicious moles at the same time. One was an 8mm mole on my chest. I received a copy of the…
Skin and Vulvar Cancers
Skin cancers and Vulvar cancer
Help me keep positive over the recent news on my fathers melanoma
Please help me! I don't really have anyone to talk to that knows what I am going through . My dad is 800 miles from me and I got news today that his melanoma has spread to his brain! I need to keep positive but all I keep finding is bad things about it. Have others survived this? First was a baseball size mass 4 years ago.…