I go to a lady dermatologist. She does an upper body exam on me. Several times she has asked if I want a lower body exam. I always just say: "No I haven't checked below, but there seems to be no change down there, and she say's "o.k., but let me know is something changes" But there is not much chance that there will be, I only use my lower body for walking (and occasionally for kicking - if something makes me mad)
I'm just back from the Dermatologist. I had four biopsies done. Two on the crown of my skull and one on forehead and left eyebrow. I'll get the pathology results next week.
Good luck @Lon Tanner The doctor I saw for over 25 years would give me my annual physical, look at all the moles on my back, tell me which type each was, and say "You've got nothing to worry about." My current assembly line doctor gives me my annual physical, looks at all the moles on my back, and says "You need to see a dermatologist." I have been fried so many times in my life I've lost count. So I figured a skin cancer exam's not a bad idea. I've had 2 such exams. Both negative.
I sure have paid and still paying the price of sun exposure. Basal Cell & Squamous Cell Skin Cancers galore.
Yeh, I saw those pics of you on the beach (New Zealand?) and wondered. We vacationed by the Atlantic when I was a kid. I'd spend all summer outside, usually fishing or crabbing looking dead east into the sun. I was as brown as brown could be. And I've had my back burned to the point I could not shower or stand up. I worked for a woman in her 30s who was a lifeguard when she was a teenager and was constantly having cancerous cells removed. That's why I took the referral offer to get some exams. At least these days they have the technology...
My facility will take residents for Medical and other appointments within a 10 mile radius. However they will have no one available For Monday when I have a scheduled PET Scan. I will take my old friend UBER.
Looks like I will be going through another marathon of appointments to have the newly dx'd skin cancers on the top of my head radiated. I am so tired of this. I had 20 sessions last year. I am happy though to not have any out of pocket cost.
Sorry to hear this Lon. I had a big spot taken off my nose recently that turned out a precancer. Were these recent ones on your head found on a routine exam or did you notice them and have them checked?
I had one just below my right ear. The dermatologist did MOSE surgery and there is not even a scar. It was a tiny one, though.
My husband has had several removed with the MOSE surgery, and also using that topical chemo cream that kind of "peels" them off.
A few years back I had my skin cancers surgically removed but I am taking a Blood Thinner and doc says radiation. I had a Mose procedure done in 1992