Skin Cancer in General

Introduction Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers and frighteningly is on the increase. This may be due to people exposing themselves to harmful rays of the sun which are getting evermore powerful with the damage of the o zone layer, and may also be due to the popular use of one of my pet hates, the sun beds. As you all should be aware, skin cancer is often caused by exposure to the sun, in fact this is the case in a whopping 85% of recorded cases. The cancer generally develops in the epidermis (outermost layer of skin), so a tumour is usually clearly visible. There are actually 3 types of skin cancer, the two most common are called basal cell and ...  Read the complete review

Introduction: I thought long and hard about writing this review, it's not something I like to do, talk about myself and my life but I decided because of the subject matter it could be beneficial to share my experiences. Some facts: Skin cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the UK, with over 40,000 cases a year. There are three types, Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas, these are the most common and rarely life threatening. The third is the Melignant Melanoma this is the most dangerous type. 6000 people a year get this third type and 1500 die a year from it. My story: Just over two ...  Read the complete review

I thought I would like to share my experience of skin cancer with readers. I wrote this review on another site but feel so strongly about the subject that I had to post it here too. Events began in January 2004 and are as shown below: **************** JANUARY 2004: Last night because I was in a bit of a state. I telephone "me mam" every night - she will be 84 years of age on 1 February and I love her dearly. I didn't ring her on Monday (she lives in the North East and I am in Dorset)because I was tired - had a hard day at work and thought "I'll ring her tomorrow, as usual". So, last night, about half an hour ...  Read the complete review

I think we are all aware of the dangers of the sun to our skin….or should be. I come across so many people, adults and children, that never use sunscreen or they do not use it properly. ~~What’s all the fuss about ?~~ Our skin tans as a form of protecting itself from further damage. a reduction in the ‘ozone’ in the earths atmosphere means that we now get much more over exposure to uv rays than we did fifty years ago. The ozone acts as a filter to screen out and reduce uv light. We need to protect our skin, ourselves from the dangers, this is where sunscreen comes in to it’s own. i don’t just mean the sore skin ...  Read the complete review

3 years ago, a mole on my mother's back started to itch and bleed a bit. She went to her GP. As a doctor myself, I already saw the warning signs, and, following a referral to the dermatologist, a biopsy confirmed melanoma. The melanoma was described as Grade IV. Mum didn't know what that meant. To be honest, I'm quite pleased she didn't realise that Grade IV tumours had an appalling survival rate. I didn't tell her that. Following the biopsy, she went back into hospital to have a wide excision of the melanoma, with skin-grafting from her leg, and lymph node biopsies from her armpit. The melanoma had spread to some of the lymph nodes, so ...  Read the complete review