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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 24 2003,2:31 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Hey Kids:

I hate to be a downer, but I think this one's important seeing that we all love going to the river in summer...

About 3 years ago a friend of ours (43 at the time) was diagnosed with brain cancer.  He loved being in the sun and was an avid jet skiier.  Previous to his diagnosis, he had a small mole on his face that he never had checked.  

Well, that small mole apparently was the beginning stages of melanoma.  The melanoma eventually metastasized and turned into brain cancer.  He died last Saturday at the age of 46 from the only cancer that's 100% curable (melanoma) because he didn't get his moles checked.

I've had over 20 moles removed. Of those 20, 3 were actinic keratosis (meaning they were abnormal skin growths that were precancers) and I had to have a large area of skin removed - and stitches - to make sure they got all the abnormal cells out of my body.

I go in every 6 months now and every time they usually take off 3- 8 moles at a time.  I was an 80's baby who did nothing but baby oil at the beach in my late teens - and I'm paying for it now.  

AND, another fact that's important - it's not the big, funky looking moles that the doctors are concerned about so much anymore...it's the little tiny black dots that are the size of a ball-point pen mark - those are the ones they keep taking off me!!!

Again, not to be a downer, but it's sad when someone dies so young from something that could have been totally treatable...
GET YOUR MOLES CHECKED! :beat

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 24 2003,3:01 pm Post # 2 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Yep I second that, I'm on the every 3 month ck up, because of some I had removed from my forehead and chest, some people may remember the pics. I can post'em again if ya want  :eek  :laugh

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uhhh.... no  :puke

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Post Icon Posted: Sep. 24 2003,10:31 pm Post # 4 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (bonbuttercup @ Sep. 24 2003,2:31 pm)
Hey Kids:

I hate to be a downer, but I think this one's important seeing that we all love going to the river in summer...
GET YOUR MOLES CHECKED! :beat

www.melanoma.com

Bonnie

I am sorry for the loss of your friend.

THANKS FOR THE POST:
I AM CALLING MY DOCTOR TOMORROW. :phone

I am one that has to go have my moles checked too. I am not as regular as you are, but I should be. I have had 2 moles taken off my back.
By the grace of God those ones have come back okay.

My doctor wants me to go in every 6 months and get checked. Now more than ever I should get checked. I have two family members that in the past year come down with 2 very rare types of cancer. One had uturine and the other one has stage 4 brain cancer.

I will make my appointment like I do for my teeth.
I need to be here for my three angels....2 boys and a girl.


I too am an 80's baby. Our motto was" WHAT'S SUNSCREEN??"
No my back is just trashed. I use to get 2nd & 3rd degree burns on my chest and back. YUP! I am paying for that now too.
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So sorry to hear about your loss.  And thanks for bringing that up as I have never been checked for that.  I guess I should go in.  
I lost my best friend this summer to cancer so I do feel your pain.  He had lung cancer so all you smokers please stop!

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