If you live in the Tampa area, head on over to Busch Gardens on May 7th for Melanoma Monday. Doctors and staff from University Community Hospital will be at the park to give out free skin cancer screenings. Just stop by the Crown Colony Plaza for your free beer sample, and you can pick up some tips on avoiding skin cancer while you’re there!
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May 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
The key to fighting melanoma is to discover suspicious skin lesions at an early stage. Check moles for A)symmetry, for irregular B)orders, for multiple C)olors, for a D)iameter larger than a pencil eraser and for E)volution which is an enlarging or new mole. These are the ABCDE’s for self-screening.
It is important to keep checking for new or changing moles, particularly if you are at risk. Those that have had a melanoma removed may be cured but they are at high risk for recurrence of new melanomas. If you have a lot of moles it is very hard (impossible really) to be able to tell if new or changing ones are present though.
DermAlert is an image comparison software program developed through funding from the National Cancer Institute that is inexpensive and lets you use your digital camera in the privacy of your own home to find changing moles over time. Then you can point out the changes to your dermatologist.