Melanoma: ‘Doctors said my cancerous mole was fungus’
By the time BBC journalist Sarah Lee was able to get doctors to listen, her cancer had spread. …
After looking at my mole with a dermatoscope, the skin specialist told me three things: it didn’t look unusual, I was too young to have skin cancer, and that it was almost impossible to get melanoma on the scalp, as the hair acts as a barrier to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
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