Checking for skin cancer signs

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Checking for skin cancer signs

Posted Aug 1st 2007 8:03AM by Brian White
Filed under: Skin Cancer

Summer is in full swing and there is no better time to have a reminder about checking yourself for skin cancer signs than now. In addition to ensuring those moles are benign, are there other things you can do to make sure you're safe from skin cancer? Some simple self checks are a great starting point.

Irregularly-shaped skin blemishes that are reddish-brown to brown in color should be checked out, and if those moles have any of the characteristics below, someone qualified like a regular physician, dermatologist or even oncologist may need to take a closer look.

Bleeding
Itching
Rapid growth
A sore or area that won't heal
A scaly or crusty growth
Rough patches that feel like sandpaper

Tags: melanoma, skin cancer, skin cancer signs, SkinCancer, SkinCancerSigns

Reader Comments

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1. Skin Cancer effects all ages and ethnicities. The suns rays are damaging all year long. My 4 year old son had stage 3 melanoma. The only symptom was an itchy mole on hip. He endured a years worth of interferon treatment.

Once he completed his treatment in December 2007, I started Skin Insight, LLC to help bring awareness to pediatric melanoma, as well as offering sun protective clothing and products to encourage proactivity.

Please visit my site for products, facts and links, and more on my sons journey.

http://www.skininsight.net

Posted at 8:51PM on Sep 18th 2008 by jwiley

2. European hypocrisy has treated the Sun of God like an invisible bystander. Infact, the god of white people and Jews is invisible. This is the reason they (whites and Jews) can have and justify the immoral, reprobate, greedy and racist behavior they have and continue to demonstrate toward the other people, beings and nations of the earth.

Yet we praise the Sun of God (who is Jesus) for His Prophet and Scientist Yacub 7 Ali who teaches us how to use the ultraviolet light the Sun of God has blessed our hair, skin and eyes to absorb and aggressively project it on fair skinned and white people to give them skin cancers and melanomas to burn the from the earth (Learn How to Give White People Skin Cancers, Diseases and Melanomas)

"The first world was destoryed by fire. Fire is reserved for the destruction of this world. Ultraviolet light is fire" - Yacub 7 Ali - "Burn them from the face of the planet."

Posted at 3:43AM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Louis Farard

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