May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and we are shouting it from the mountaintops or maybe we should say, blogging it from the molehills. Get it? Mole. Hills. While skin cancer is no laughing matter, we are willing to use whatever means necessary to kick you into gear to get your skin checked.
Prevention + Detection = Health
When it comes to skin cancer, prevention is key: staying covered up with hats, shirts, and sunglasses, slathering on sunscreen, and never using tanning beds. However, the skin cancer you get today is from the exposure you had in your past. Everyone needs a professional skin check. If you are not convinced yet, here are a seven reasons to make that appointment today.
There are free resources in your area. Please take advantage of them.
The Skin Cancer Foundation and Rite Aid are providing free skin screenings in a mobile unit through The Road to Healthy Skin Tour.
The American Academy of Dermatology has a locator for you to find free screenings in your state.
The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery also offers a locator for free screenings.
Check with your local health department, they often have free health screenings.
Wishing you health and peace,
Ellen and Erin
Got mine done already! I get one every year, sometimes twice a year. My uncle died from melanoma when I was young, and I’ve had to have several spots removed for testing (a couple were potential cancer makers) so I take this very seriously! Good for you for doing this. 🙂
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THANK YOU for this!
If I had a time machine, I’d go back and kick my 20 year old self out of the tanning bed.
Pale it’s the new tan.
Great post! Scheduling my skin check TODAY.
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great post. I will definitely share!
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Thank you for spreading the word! My dad died from melanoma when he was in his early 40s – I”m older now than he ever was. Which is weird. His dad died from it too and so did his uncle. My family was on board with the original PABA sunscreen before sunscreen was readily available. I’m also part of a melanoma study in NIH’s genetic epidemiology section. Thankfully, I am OK so far.
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