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Melanomas 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.
by fragsworth 7y ago
Melanomas 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?