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I have this mole, and it looks like skin cancer and I am getting it looked at on the 5th, I went into see my doctor about it awhile ago she was kind of useless she said "to just keep an eye on it" I went to another doctor recently who referred me to a dermatologist, I would be really mad at the first doctor for not referring me to a dermatologist the first time if it was cancer because I left thinking it wasn't cancer, but anyways my question is, what are the odds of a cancerous looking mole (two colors, not quite 6mm/the size of a pencil eraser I think, irregular border but not super irregular elevated with a hair growing in it. there's also another small mole near it with three black dots in the middle.) being cancerous I mean is it possible for moles to develop and look like cancer but not be cancer or what i have a lot of freckles/moles and i read that you're more likely to have skin cancer if you have a lot of freckles/moles that are normal, also the mole is on my arm, and females are more likely to develop melanoma on their arms/legs? I also can't tell if some of the other ones are just freckles or...I mean there's like a small two colored mole (or freckle?) on my leg but the mole on my arm is elevated so that's one way I can tell the difference that its a mole, I am not sure if all the other ones are freckles are there two-colored freckles ever? (My mom is a redhead, both my mom and sister are pretty pale, my sister is blonde, but I never burn or tan/am brunette, and am not pale like they are but I've heard there's debate about how much melonama is related to sun exposure/non childhood sun exposure as opposed to the other two skin cancers?) The mole is obviously composed of two colors (dark and light) when you look at under sunlight; the difference is much less obvious when not under sunlight which is one reason I didn't get it rechecked after seeing my doctor
My sister was like, oh I read this chart and the death rate for cancer isn't that high, but I think she was factoring in the death rate of all three cancers and not just melanoma which I've heard is pretty fatal? I was reading this blog of someone who had, I think it was thryoid cancer and they said if they had a choice theyd pick thyroid cancer over melanoma
My sister was like, oh I read this chart and the death rate for cancer isn't that high, but I think she was factoring in the death rate of all three cancers and not just melanoma which I've heard is pretty fatal? I was reading this blog of someone who had, I think it was thryoid cancer and they said if they had a choice theyd pick thyroid cancer over melanoma
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