I received a comment about my post titled Do you know what skin cancer looks like?. I thought this was a good message to post for the readers since I only added one specific picture of melanoma on my post. Commenter said --The melanoma image is misleading. Melanoma can look like a fleshy colored pimple. All the images the dermatologists show in their offices are black and are odd shaped. This is incorrect, my husband has melanoma and had a spot removed that was flesh colored and perfectly round, looked like a pimple. The data needs to be updated in the dermatologist office. Even the doctor's thought worst case scenario my husband had basal cell, not melanoma until the path came back different. Anything new get it checked right away. Don't assume and ignore the pictures they are wrong.
Click here to get some additional photos of what melanoma could look like. This of course is not what they all might look like and its always best to get your moles or skin bumps checked out by a dermatologist.
