#melanoma diagnosis

[molecheck]

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A well-known clinic for skin cancer or melanoma detection in Box Hill, and the neighbouring areas provides sophisticated solutions of skin checks for malignancy-suspected moles and other harmful cell types in the skin that can develop into Melanoma.

People must visit skin cancer diagnosis to inspect and keep their skin and body healthy due to the harsh UV radiation and pollutants available in the environment.

Skin experts in well-known skin clinics in Balwyn, Hawthorn, and the surrounding areas advise patients to avoid unprotected sun exposure to reduce the chance of developing malignancies such as melanoma. Their skill in comprehensive skin cancer tests can benefit all visitors and patients of any age. 

Why Visit These Specialized Clinics for Skin Cancer Tests?

Authorised skin cancer special clinics typically employ qualified and experienced doctors and dermatology diagnosis experts who can evaluate skin and identify suspected moles through complete skin screening. 

They can identify skin cancer by evaluating those cells, and following a good diagnosis, they can recommend appropriate treatment to recover from skin cancer.

They have more research labs and facilities to assess whether the patient developed malignant skin cells.

These clinics employ doctors who have extensive training and expertise in the detection and treatment of skin cancer. 

They check for skin cancer using cutting-edge medical optics, photography, software, and clinical instruments.

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Customers should be aware of the following factors before visiting any skin cancer clinic and make an informed decision to guarantee a pleasant and productive treatment experience:

Before visiting any skincare clinic, people should conduct extensive research to learn more about the clinic's credibility, authorization, and reviews. Find a dermatologist with experience and a track record of successful skin cancer treatment cases.

Visitors must confirm that the clinic offers skin cancer testing such as skin cancer checks, biopsies, mole removal, treatment, and an aftercare process before making any decisions.

Find a reputable clinic that accepts health insurance that is appropriate for the patient's condition, and covers existing insurance. 

Furthermore, finance is an issue, and patients should be mindful of their financial needs and flow without jeopardising their future savings. In that scenario, they should look for better facilities that meet their requirements.

Overall, to learn more about potential issues and viable remedies, people must schedule a consultation to follow a first discussion on skin inspection and follow-up methods and can make an informed treatment decision.

Therefore, contact a reputable and well-known skin cancer clinic right away to schedule a skin check consultation.

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[artisticdivasworld]

Melanoma and Black Skin: A Rising Concern

Introduction Melanoma, a type of skin cancer, has traditionally been associated with fair-skinned individuals. However, recent studies indicate a rising severity of melanoma in the black population. This post looks at what melanoma is, why its severity may be increasing among black individuals, preventive measures, and the current treatments available. What is Melanoma? Melanoma is the most…

[lovphobic]

bestie beloved it cant be both squamous and melanoma you have to pick. did you mean to use an And in there. whats going on speak clearly

[charlotte-of-wales]

A spokesman for the Duchess of York says:

“Following her diagnosis with an early form of breast cancer this summer, Sarah, Duchess of York has now been diagnosed with malignant melanoma. Her dermatologist asked that several moles were removed and analysed at the same time as the Duchess was undergoing reconstructive surgery following her mastectomy, and one of these has been identified as cancerous. She is undergoing further investigations to ensure that this has been caught in the early stages. Clearly, another diagnosis so soon after treatment for breast cancer has been distressing but the Duchess remains in good spirits. The Duchess wants to thank the entire medical team which has supported her, particularly her dermatologist whose vigilance ensured the illness was detected when it was. She believes her experience underlines the importance of checking the size, shape, colour and texture and emergence of new moles that can be a sign of melanoma.”

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

A few years ago I got a suspicious mole on my belly during my second pregnancy. After the pregnancy I had it checked, turned out it was stage 0 melanoma. I was 36. On the scale of cancers it’s a nothingburger, no chemo or anything just frequent checks for a couple years after and yearly checks after that, but the emotions it sent me through were awful. I can remember being incredibly freaked out about how young I was to have cancer, how at risk my body was for more cancer, questioning whether it could already be somewhere else and they/I just hadn’t caught it, and worried about seeing my kids grow up. And again, that was with a nothingburger on the scale of cancers, and I’m a pretty optimistic, fighting kind of person in a place with really good medical care.

All that to say that it adds another layer of horrible to me about the public’s reaction to her Mother’s Day picture. There had to be a part of her scared about how easily there might not be another, no matter how good the prognosis and how optimistic a person she is.

Thanks for sharing, anon. I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in your shoes - expecting a little one, another little one at home, and the C-word popping up. I'm sure you must have been so relieved that your case ended up as easy as it was. I hope Kate is equally lucky and comforted.

Speaking of the Mother's Day picture, today's statement makes it take on a whole new meaning. It is normal to see the Waleses family loving on each other in their family photos, but it's especially poignant to see how closely Kate was holding (and being held by) her babies. No doubt she has been thinking a lot about them and worrying about not just their future, but their today.

And I also wonder now if perhaps she held Louis and Charlotte so close to her to hide some of the weight loss she has been dealing with from the surgery, and now stress of the cancer diagnosis. And perhaps she didn't wear her rings not because her fingers were still swollen by medication so they didn't fit, but because they didn't fit because she had lost some weight.

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Title: The Cala Lillies of Winchester

Summary: Love stories don’t exist in a bubble, floating high and away from reality, able to grow and mature without the outside world’s influences. It’s simply naive. The strongest, the purest of true love stories survive the worst and thrive in life’s bullshit. Dean Winchester learned the hard way. He would never have guessed the awkward blue-eyed stranger on a bus would brighten his darkest days and define his happily ever after. Battling through his own terrifying diagnosis and his brother Sam’s demons, Dean might drown under the pummeling waves of his harsh reality. Instead he uncovers the strength to break the surface and inhale with a solid hand in his, always.

The light at the end of the tunnel is worth the fight to be reborn.

MUST READ DESTIEL FIC!!

This is such an amazing story!

Castiel instantly connects with Dean who falls asleep on him while on the bus and Cas being Cas decided to take him home and keep him. Doesn’t take long for Dean to agree.

It’s an amazing, challenging love story from there that encompasses family, children, health and home, and the challenges of in-laws for their personal and religious views. It’s beautiful and terrifying, and worth the tears.

(Trigger warnings below the cut)

TW: Melanoma Cancer, Cancer treatments, Drug addiction, Homophobia (from family), Religious trauma (implied), drowning,

[lovelysparklykid]

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Sarah Ferguson has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma, it was revealed on Sunday. In a statement, a spokesman for Sarah, Duchess of York said: "Following her diagnosis with an early form of breast cancer this summer, Sarah, Duchess of York has now been diagnosed with malignant melanoma.

"Her dermatologist asked that several moles were removed and analysed at the same time as the Duchess was undergoing reconstructive surgery following her mastectomy, and one of these has been identified as cancerous. 

[celticcrossanon]

Celta, I hope you don't mind this question on your gift feeling energy & mystical beings. Have you also felt or seen the presence of angels or heaven or God? I ask because it was announced today Sarah, the Duchess of York has skin cancer. I don't mean to be intrusive or rude but it feels a bit scary w/Catherine & KCIII announcing scheduled surgeries on Wed & then this. It'd be reassuring if you could confirm if you felt or seen angels and/or anything else so I know we're not alone. Thank you. :)

Hi Nonny,

I just looked it up and she has malignant melanoma. I understand that it was just one mole that had turned cancerous, which is good, and they caught the mole in the early stages, which is even better. It is when it is in the later stages (3-5 or 2-4 depending on whether the first stage is called 1 or 0) that you worry. Apparently she has seen her dermatologist and told the people waiting that she was fine, so all is good.

My country, Australia, has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, so it is not scary to me. The main thing is to keep an eye on your moles and get them checked by the doctor if they start to change. If I sound blasé it is not that I am unsympathetic to the diagnosis, but that it is not unusual for someone to develop skin cancer as they get older here. I've had members of my family treated for it in the early stages and they were all fine afterwards.

In regards to your other request, I am a firm believer in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the angels and the saints, and that they all have the power to help us. I will share one story from my life as an example of this. I think I may have shared this on another forum before - maybe even on tumblr - so if you have seen it before it may be from another post by me.

If anyone else wants to share stories about the angels, the saints, God etc I am happy to post them here.

Story below the cut

When I was younger, in my twenties, I woke up one day with two red marks, red dots, on my neck, in a line and a little bit apart apart. The marks were not small, but they weren't huge and taking over half my neck either.

Normally I would freak out about the spots, but for some reason I was very placid and docile and didn't worry about them. In fact, I forgot about them until I saw them again the next day in the mirror - two deep red marks. They weren't mozzie bites or insect bites or any sort of marks that I had seen before, but I just dismissed it from my mind and went on with my life. The marks didn't fade, as mozzie bites do, but for some reason I was very placid about it all and ignored them.

This happened for a few days, and then I woke up very suddenly in the middle of the night. I could feel a weight pressing me down, and I could feel something warm trickling down my neck. I was utterly petrified. I prayed and called on God to protect me, and as soon as I asked Jesus to protect me - screaming it out in my mind because I was so scared - the presence left. I didn't sleep much for the rest of the night.

The next morning I looked in the mirror and the two deep red marks on my neck had vanished.

The presence never came back. I had the house blessed, to make sure, but I have not been troubled by it since, and I have never seen those marks on my neck again.

[darkmaga-retard]

https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-report-young-people-dying-cancer-explosive-rates-uk-government-data-show/5840985

Young People Dying of Cancer at ‘Explosive’ Rates, UK Government Data Show. Study

By Mike Capuzzo and Ed Dowd

Global Research, August 12, 2024

Teenagers and young people in their 20s, 30s and 40s in the U.K. are dying from rapidly metastasizing and terminal cancers at an unprecedented rate since mass COVID-19 vaccination began, according to a new analysis by Edward Dowd.

The 45-page report by Dowd, a former Wall Street hedge fund manager and author of “‘Cause Unknown’: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” alarmed some oncologists who characterized it as a sharp reversal of decades of mortality data.

Edward Dowd based his analysis on readily available government statistics from the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics.

In an interview with The Defender, Dowd said he and his research partners, who include a handful of high-level scientists, data analysts and financial experts, examined all International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, (ICD-10) codes for cause of death in the U.K. in the study period of  2010-2022 to investigate trends in malignant neoplasms (C00 to C99 codes).

ICD-10 codes are the international physicians’ classification of diagnosis, symptom and procedure for claim processing set by the World Health Organization (WHO). A malignant neoplasm is a cancerous tumor.

Dowd said his research team noticed a striking pattern: While almost all deaths among older people in 2021 and 2022 in Wales and England had been coded, 8% of deaths among 15- to 44-year-olds in 2021, and 30% of deaths in that age group in 2022, hadn’t yet been coded.

“When you die in a hospital, you leave a trail of life and death with indications of what led to the death,” he said. “When a young person dies at the wheel of a car, walking down the street or in their sleep, there’s an investigation” that consumes time to assign the cause of death.

Dowd said the missing codes are “indicative of the problem” of excess deaths among young people.

But even with the caveat of missing codes, he said, the remaining 92% of coded deaths in 2021 and 70% of coded deaths in 2022 revealed “a strong signal of cancer deaths in the young. We show a large increase in mortality due to malignant neoplasms that started in 2021 and accelerated substantially in 2022.

“The increase in excess deaths in 2022 is highly statistically significant (extreme event),” Dowd wrote in his report. “The results indicate that from late 2021 a novel phenomenon leading to increased malignant neoplasm deaths appears to be present in individuals aged 15 to 44 in the UK.”

The study’s results in the rate of cancer deaths above the historic norm in 2022 for ages 15-44 in the U.K. included:

A 28% rise in fatal breast cancer rates in women.

An 80% increase in pancreatic cancer deaths among women and a 60% increase among men.

A 55% increase among men in colon cancer deaths and a 41% increase in women.

A 120% increase in fatal melanomas among men and a 35% increase in women.

A 35% increase in brain cancer deaths among men and a 12% rise in women.

A 60% increase in cancer death rates among men in cancers “without site specification” and a 55% increase among women.

[teachingrounds]

Determining whether a tumor is Intra-axial (arising from the brain) versus extra-axial (arising from meninges, pituitary, etc.) is important to developing a differential diagnosis.

Today’s case is a supratentorial mass. Gray matter is seen along the medial edge of the tumor (red arrow) indicating this is intra-axial. The most common supratentorial intra-axial lesion in an adult is metastasis, followed by glioma. This was a melanoma metastasis.

Side note: Differential diagnosis for this lesion if it were extra-axial would be metastasis versus meningioma.

Image credit: RadiologyAssistatnt.nl

[fandomohana]

Before I say this, I'm going to say this is truly alien for me...my go to has always been to hold it together, until I can fall apart by myself. So, I'm asking for a little more support, love, and grace. This is not a great time of year for me...Ten years ago, my cat, Cleo, was circling the drain after a rapid decline with breast cancer, that we had discovered the month before. She was the first animal I watched die, and it was in a word, traumatizing. Fast forward a year, and my dad had been told the melanoma he had had removed years earlier, had decided to go internal. I'm thinking he went on disability around this time, and literally from that moment on, it was another rapid fire decline. He was gone about 8 months after diagnosis, he's the only person I've watched die, I was next to his hospital bed when he passed. So pretty much anything to do with either of them, at this time of year, brings up some serious trauma.

I've never been active on Tumblr during these times of the year, August will be another bad mental health month...so I'm navigating this for the first time here, and asking for extra support, probably for the first time, regarding these losses. 😅

[raggedyanndy]

Research suggests that many patients and physicians believe that non-white people are “immune” to common skin cancers. They aren’t. This myth may have come from the statistic that the Black community has a lower incidence of skin cancer. Although skin cancer is less prevalent in the black community than in the white population, when it does occur among people of color, it tends to be diagnosed at a later, and more advanced, stage. Studies show that black people are four times more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage melanoma and tend to succumb at a rate of 1.5 times more than white people with a similar diagnosis.

Happy First Day of Summer, Northern Hemisphere! reminder that sunscreen is not just for white people. even if you have dark skin, you should protect yourself from the sun. There are sunscreens made specifically for darker skin!

Essence: Melanin-Approved: The Best Face Sunscreens for Dark Skin

Harper's Bazaar: The 19 Best Sunscreens for Dark Skin

Healthline: 20 Best Invisible Sunscreens for Dark Skin

just because you won't turn into a lobster like me doesn't mean you're immune to sun damage!

This is an old pic, but yeah.

[scaredyplane]

(personal stuff, big content warning for c@ncer and medical/mental health stuff)

So I've been hesitant to post this publically on any of my socials because I guess I don't want to freak people out, and I'm still coming to terms with it myself, but, it's plaguing my mind so much, and I guess I want support, or just a hug or something.

I went to my doctor to get a few things done, pretty normal stuff, flu shot, prescription etc... But I have had this sore on my head that has been bothering me.

I previously saw a different doctor about it and he told me it was pre-cancerous and could be treated with liquid nitrogen treatment, so I got two treatments done, but it wasn't going away and infact getting a bit bigger.

Mum told me that her doctor, who I used to see, is a skin expert, so I got him to take a look at it, as he used to work in a specialist skin cancer centre, and with one look, he said 'thats definitely cancer' and showed me on the screen that was connected to his magnifier, showing me the characteristics of it and explaining that it wasn't a benign growth.

I immediately went into action mode and asked about treatment and the outlook etc... and he told me he can take it out next week, and that in general, the type I have isn't too dangerous, but if I don't get rid of it soon it can keep growing and might grow deeper, even hitting bone.

While I consider myself very lucky that it's not a more dangerous or aggressive type, it still shook my world, and I'm trying to deal with the emotional after effects of the diagnosis and what it means for the future.

There is a high chance of recurrence, especially in younger people like me, and a chance for more dangerous cancers to form, such as melanoma.

I'm going to be having minor surgery to get it removed, but part of my hair will need to be shaved off and I'll have a scar. I've never had any sort of incision surgery before, and of course I'm nervous about it.

But I'm also really scared of the emotional after effects. I've recently had a bad C-PTSD relapse and I have been trying to work through it, but then this drops right in the middle of it.

I just... I don't feel well, it's a constant thing in my mind, even when I distract myself, it's always there, waiting for me to get back to reality. I don't think the entire gravity of it all has hit me yet and I'm bracing for that.

Sorry for such a long and serious post, but, I needed to get it off my chest.

[ohtobeleah]

Hi!

I just wanted to message you to let you know that your 'Best Worst Christmas' fic really touched me.

I have a close family member with terminal cancer so I was a little nervous to read it, but I'm so glad I did. I thought you handled the subject so wonderfully and I really loved how it was focused on making the most out of the life you're given. It wasn't too melancholy or too naively positive, it was realistic and that's what made it so beautiful.

Thank you x

Beth

Hey Beth! Thanks for reaching out. My dads recently been cleared and declared in remission from thyroid cancer he’s been battling with since 2017 but has recently been diagnosed with melanoma (because whatever god there is thinks it’s hilarious) So we’ve been around the bloke with this a few times.

It’s definitely my dad’s perspective that trickles in to my response to diagnosis that are totally out of your control. We only get one life and you gotta make the most of it while your here.

And I’m incredibly sorry to hear about your family member, I hope with whatever time they’re granted they know that they made a mark.

[lacanzonedi]

Melanoma e Rimozione Nei.

Post di @offflower

ciao a tutti, so che negli ultimi anni è aumentata l’attenzione e la prevenzione nei confronti del melanoma, ma è anche vero che tante persone si vergognano di farsi vedere nudi, questa è la mia storia e spero serva a farvi vincere un po’ dell’imbarazzo che coinvolge chiunque. A chi dovesse aver passato una storia simile: ti abbraccio con tutto il cuore. Se avete domande, vi risponderò sotto al post. Scusatemi per eventuali errori, per il linguaggio e i termini sbagliati e non inclusivi; se tra i commenti c’è qualche medico, studente di medicina mi corregga e dia info più precise e puntuali.

come è iniziato? Avevo 21, era inverno, novembre credo e mi accorgo che dietro la coscia (nella zona sottostante il gluteo, per intenderci) perdo del sangue. pensavo potesse essere un pelo incarnito che avevo avuto nei giorni precedenti, o di essermi depilata male e vado avanti con la mia vita. Qualche mese dopo mi accorgo che questa crosticina continua ad esserci, proprio in corrispondenza di un neo e vado dal medico di famiglia, che mi visita ma mi dice che non c’è nulla di cui preoccuparsi e mi da una pomata per far guarire la crosticina e liberarmi del problema. La crosticina non scompare mai, anzi peggiora e qualche mese dopo torno dal medico, che mi prescrive la rimozione per evitare il continuo sfregamento con i jeans e evitare il degenerare della situazione, ma continua a rassicurarmi dicendomi che non è nulla. Rimandiamo la visita a qualche mese dopo, perché doveva farne un’altra mio padre a cui poteva seguire un’eventuale operazione, e a Ottobre del 2018 mia madre inizia a chiamare dermatologi che visitano privatamente, i tempi d’attesa anche privatamente sono lunghi, ma fortunatamente troviamo un posto per qualche settimana dopo (quel giorno avevo un lab importante in università e mi sono scapicollata letteralmente). Faccio la visita con la dermatologa, che dopo i convenevoli inizia a visitarmi: vede il neo e incomincia ad urlare ‘questo devi toglierlo prima di subito!’ e io, che ero scesa dalla mia città da fuorisede convinta di tornare la mattina dopo perché i tempi di attesa sono di solito lunghi, mi preoccupo di non avere manco un paio di mutande in più, se non uno di ricambio lasciato apposta a casa, inizio anche a lamentarmi che avevo l’università, i laboratori e il resto, la dermatologa mi dice che comunque posso studiare anche da seduta ma devo togliermi il neo. Inizialmente vuole farmi operare dal marito chirurgo, ma due giorni dopo mi chiama e mi dice di andare in un altro ospedale della zona, di pagare l’impegnativa per l’asportazione e l’esame istologico e di andare nel reparto di dermatologia oncologica. Il giorno successivo vado (dopo 3 giorni dalla visita, nemmeno 72 h dopo) e loro prima mi fanno delle foto, poi mi asportano chirurgicamente il nevo, ovvero tagliano in direzione parallela alla chiappa e mi levano un bel pezzo di carne. Chiedo se devo preoccuparmi e loro mi dicono di riprendermi dall’operazione e di aspettare l’istologico, e poi si vedrà. Aspetto le tre settimane con i punti, senza bagnare la ferita e poi vado a rimuovere i punti e ritirare l’istologico: non è pronto e il medico mi dice che non sa cosa scriverci, quindi chiedono un consulto esterno (in caso di dubbio si fa così: si chiedono 3 consulti esterni e la diagnosi è quella che vince la maggioranza): manderanno i vetrini a tre medici o ospedali

Il 2 gennaio mi chiama la professoressa che mi ha operato, dicendo che ha appena ricevuto il primo referto: è un melanoma, e data la diagnosi nefasta non possono aspettare gli altri referti, si deve procedere subito; mi convoca per il giorno successivo in ospedale e mi prescrive analisi del sangue, Tac, Ecografie e non ricordo cosa, in previsione di un esame chiamato 'Linfonodo Sentinella’. Faccio la TAC, che è l’esame più importante e non trovano metastasi (per fortuna) e poi mi fanno una scintigrafia (esame in cui ti iniettano un liquido radioattivo che serve a localizzare la regione di origine del tumore e quanto si è espanso eventualmente) e mi operano, rimuovono e analizzano un paio di linfonodi nella zona inguinale (che corrispondeva a quella più in prossimità a dove era nato il melanoma) e riallargano i margini operatori, ovvero riaprono e ripuliscono la zona dove hanno tolto il neo; ho un drenaggio per 10 giorni circa e i punti, ho difficoltà a sedermi sul cesso per pisciare perché ho i punti per tutta la larghezza della coscia e il drenaggio e i punti sulla parte anteriore della coscia. Il linfonodo sentinella risulta negativo e tiriamo un sospiro di sollievo. Inizia poi la fase chiamata prevenzione: per i primi anni devo fare controllo linfonodi con ecografia e visita dermatologica ogni 4 mesi circa, e una Tac di controllo una volta l’anno. Ad Aprile faccio la prima visita con il team della Dermatologia oncologica, che vede un nuovo neo troppo in prossimità al melanoma: lo rimuovono sempre chirurgicamente un mese dopo, questo è negativo. Un anno dopo dall’operazione al linfonodo tolgo anche un altro neo sulla spalla, che era displastico (primi segni di cambiamento). Tutt’ora faccio ancora le mie visite di controllo, le ecografie ai linfonodi e all’addome, la mia tac con mezzo di contrasto una volta l’anno (tipo revisione della macchina) e non ho più rimosso nei; per familiarità ne fanno una ogni sei mesi mamma, papà e fratello (non ho figli, ma altrimenti sarebbe toccato anche a loro). I miei genitori hanno rimosso un neo ciascuno, ma nulla di problematico.

Cos’è un melanoma? Tumore maligno della pelle, ovvero che deve essere necessariamente rimosso perché potrebbe degenerare. Come si toglie un neo? So che ci sono due modi, il laser e l’escissione chirurgica. Il laser a me non lo hanno mai fatto, lo ha fatto mio zio ed è veloce e indolore; io ho sempre fatto l’escissione chirurgica, ovvero taglio e asportazione. Mi hanno sempre messo i punti (il primo taglio era lungo quasi tutta la coscia in larghezza), che non andavano medicati. Mi avevano raccomandato di non bagnare la ferita, quindi come facevo a lavarmi? Ovviamente mi lavavano perché sono una maniaca dell’igiene, ma la gamba non operata la lavavo nella vasca, mentre il resto del corpo lo bagnavo con un asciugamano da ospiti, mettevo la mousse detergente e la toglievo con un asciugamano imbevuto; non la cosa più semplice e veloce del mondo ma almeno mi lavavo ed ero pulita. Ovviamente no sport e sforzi per qualche settimana, ma per il resto potevo fare tutto. Fa male? No, vi operano in anestesia locale e non sentite nulla, al massimo un po' di dolore alla zona nei giorni successivi ma passa con un antidolorifico.

Come si riconosce un neo o nevo che potrebbe essere patologico? C’è la regola dell’ ABCDE, ovvero Asimmetria (se non è perfettamente tondo o ovale o la simmetria perfetta della forma che ha) Bordi (se sono frastagliati o irregolare o non uniformi), Colore (se non è uniforme o ci sono parti più chiare o scure) Dimensione (se cambia dimensione, cresce), Evoluzione (se cambia nel corso del tempo). Se ci sono tutte o alcune di queste caratteristiche, fatevi visitare. Come si svolge la visita dal dermatologo? Dopo i convenevoli, prima c’è l’anamnesi quindi se avete familiarità (ovvero parenti e casi mi famiglia di melanoma) e poi la visita vera e propria, dove vi dovete spogliare (si via il reggiseno e si rimane in mutande, che vengono scostate) e il dermatologo o la dermatologa valuterà i singoli nei, e li fotografa per valutare nel tempo la loro evoluzione. Non è doloroso, e nemmeno imbarazzante: il medico è li per visitarvi e siete dei pezzi di carne, vi guarda osserva e controlla i nei e il resto, la loro dimensione ma non quella del resto del corpo, al massimo vi dirà di mettere la crema idratante perché avete la pelle secca. Non imbarazzatevi, io sono molto pudica ma alla seconda visita avevo uno specializzando maschio che mi stava visitando le tette, ma è stato super professionale, tanto che mi sono sentita a mio agio perché sapevo che stava controllando quello che doveva controllare e non il resto. I dottori in genere vi spostano e vedono anche sotto le mutande: nessun imbarazzo, cercano solo nei e non vi stanno valutando i genitali. Anche se avete qualche pelo o ricrescita: non preoccupatevi, non ci fanno caso.

Perché è importante farsi visitare? Perché è sempre un tumore maligno, sebbene le metastasi non siano frequenti la possibilità c’è, quindi fatevi visitare anche se vedete un minimo cambiamento, magari non è nulla, ma se aspettate la situazione potrebbe peggiorare. E le cicatrici? Non so cosa dire a chi potrebbe farmi questa domanda, perché c’è a chi fanno schifo e disturbano in maniera tremenda (tipo una mia amica che mi diceva che si vedeva quella sulla spalla… zia, ce l’ho e amen) e chi se ne frega, nel mio caso impari a fregartene e dopo un po nemmeno ci fai caso. I medici prestano la massima attenzione possibile a ricucire in maniera più carina possibile esteticamente, poi dopo un po’ saranno meno evidenti perché schiariscono.

NOTA AGGIUNTIVA: io ho capelli rossi e pelle chiarissima, quindi la mia pelle è già di per se un fattore di rischio. ho sempre utilizzato quintali di protezione solare, per cui venivo anche presa in giro, eppure nonostante gli accorgimenti ci sono incappata lo stesso. voi per prevenzione mettete sempre spf alto e non scottatevi.

//Grazie @offflower per aver voluto condividere la tua preziosa esperienza. Con l'augurio che sia stato un solo caso isolato.//