| Melanoma skin cancer does not just form where | | | | of your legs and your back and neck, and scalp. |
| you get the most sun. Many people think that | | | | We all have moles, or birth marks, or scars, that |
| they only need to check the areas of their skin | | | | make us unique, it doesn't mean it is cancer, what |
| that are regularly exposed to the sun. | | | | you are looking for is changes. Most moles stay |
| While this is good practice, don't ignore the rest of | | | | the same shape, but if they start getting larger, |
| your body. My brother found his melanoma | | | | form weird edges, or bleed, itch or scab up, then |
| growth on his upper thigh, and he has never worn | | | | it doesn't hurt to get it checked out. This goes for |
| shorts in his life. He always kept check on his | | | | any cut that does not heal, or forms a scab that |
| arms, legs, face etc, but when a cut that wouldn't | | | | keeps falling off, which is what my brother had. |
| heal showed up on his inner thigh, he didn't think it | | | | He did not have one mole on his body. |
| could possibly be melanoma skin cancer, because | | | | Melanoma skin cancer, has a very high rate of |
| he had never got any sun there. | | | | cure if caught early. You need to get familiar with |
| So, when you are giving your body the "once | | | | your body, so that you can let your doctor know. |
| over" check... don't ignore the skin that is always | | | | It is up to you to find these changes, so don't |
| covered, and check places like your underarms, | | | | forget to look past your arms and back and face. |
| thighs, etc, and get someone to check the backs | | | | |