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Fighting Against Malignant Melanoma
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As a teenager I always loved to go to the tanning salon. All of the popular girls in my school did it and I did too. I wanted to fit in and look just as ...
My Strong Mom Fought Melanoma and Won
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When I was a child, my mother was diagnosed with Malignant Melanoma . It was frightening for me at the time, and now, looking back, I can see how frightening ...
Melanoma in Situ
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I was a sun goddess. From the time I was very young, I can remember laying a towel out on the black asphalt driveway in the summertime after spending ...
Never Seen Moles
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I noticed a couple of moles on my body were getting larger and darker one day, one on the side of my scalp and one in my arm pit.
I decided to make ...
Anatomy 101 - Best Class Ever
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In the fall of 2001 I came in to a little unexpected money from my previous job. It wasn't a lot of money but I decided I wanted to do something worthwhile ...
The Awful effects of Malignant Melanoma
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Malignant Melanoma is one of the worst scenarios I had ever had to deal with in my days of nursing.
I worked in a Cancer Center, often times with ...
How I Beat Malignant Melanoma
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It's Malignant Melanoma, your doctor tells you. And you shudder. The words send a chill down your spine.
When my doctor told me, nearly a decade ...
Hours in the Sun
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My father is a fisherman. For hours a day in the summer time, he can be found outside, perched by the water with his fishing pole, just waiting to catch ...
Easy to Learn, but Taught Hard
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So me and my one of my greatest friends (I mean like from second grade to the present) decided that we were going to take a trip down to Panama City for ...
Melanoma at 17
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Living on one of the Great Lakes, we spent our summers laying out at the beach. If we were not laying out at the beach, we were on our decks, or finding ...
Anabelle
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My eighteenth birthday is one that I will never forget, and not because of the presents or the excitement of finally becoming an adult.
When I came ...
Family History of Skin Cancer
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My mother, grandmother, uncle and Dad have all had some form of Skin Cancer . Luckily for our family all were detected early enough to remove the cancer ...
A Persistent Malignant Melanoma And A Persistent Person
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I had a friend who had a sore on the upper part of his back and it turned out to be a Malignant Melanoma .
After all the tests surgery was determined ...
Malignant Melanoma: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
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Malignant Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that usually starts with a mole but can also develop in normal looking skin.
If Melanoma Skin Cancer ...
My Fair-Skinned Hero
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My light-skinned, blue-eyed father grew up in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s in New Mexico and spent most of his life under the hot New Mexican sun.
He ...
My Brother's Story
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My brother died from a Malignant Melanoma in 2004. His started along the hairline behind one of his ears so it was difficult for him to spot.
His ...
Malignant Melanoma Mechanism
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This is the most lethal form of Skin Cancer although when diagnosed early the prognosis is good.
It occurs when pigment producing cells called ...
WWII Melanoma
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My grandfather on my mother's side served in the Navy in WWII.
He and his shipmates were stationed in Hawaii just outside of Pearl Harbor. Their ...
Malignant Melanoma
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I have a friend, who I will call Janie, who likes to go dirt biking in the desert with her family.
She has been doing this for a number of years,...
Cumulative Damage
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A lot is said about the effects of just a little damage to skin.
More important, though is the cumulative damage someone might have collected over ...
I Lost My Best Friend
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My best friend, beautiful Kathy, was diagnosed with skin cancer .
She had a mole on her stomach and had it removed. Months later another showed ...
Malignant Melanoma Can Take Your Life
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I have a friend who had “a mole” on her leg which got bigger and bigger.
It then began to bleed whenever anything came in contact with it.
She ...
Shelly's Skin Cancer Story 2005
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In late 2005, I was at a doctor appointment with a new doctor.
As she was doing my breast exam, she blurted out, " That mole looks cancerous! We ...
