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> At the end of the day skin cancer is a relatively rare, easily treatable disease Please don't say that. Most skin cancers are indeed treatable (basal cell an
by gniv 7y ago
> At the end of the day skin cancer is a relatively rare, easily treatable disease
Please don't say that. Most skin cancers are indeed treatable (basal cell and squamous cell). But melanoma is not, unless caught early. Yes, there are some better drugs now, but it's far from treatable. I have heard too many stories of people who went to the dermatologist to have a mole checked, and 9 months later they were dead. Melanoma is scary.
- fragsworth 7y agoMelanomas are largely treatable because they are caught early. People tend to notice fast-growing tumors on their skin, unlike in other areas of their bodies.
- epmaybe 7y agoThat's not always true. You have lots of skin in places you don't tend to look at regularly.
- 01100011 7y agoPeople often miss things, or mistake them for something else. My buddy thought he had a mole on his ear until it turned out it was aggressive melanoma. They reconstructed his ear and took out some lymph nodes, and 2 years later it came back in his lung. Fortunately he enrolled in a clinical trial of immune based chemo, so he only lost his thyroid and adrenal glands. How likely is it that you'd notice melanoma on your scalp or back?
- aantix 7y agoIt’s scary so therefore he shouldn’t say that skin cancer is rare and treatable?
- dang 7y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html