My mole did not look „abnormal“. Even the specialist said it is probably nothing but to be sure we will take it out. Two days ago I got a phone call with the results: malignant melanoma. Next week I am going in for a second op to remove the area even further. Get yourself checked is all I can say and when in doubt out with it.
Because it’s not helpful. My most ugly, suspicious looking moles turned out to be fine. It was a tiny innocent looking freckle that turned out to be melanoma. It can look like anything really and I don’t think pictures are helpful. I think everyone should get checked once a year
I sat and watched this and it was such a great message, my husband died of melanoma at 31, i was over 8 months pregnant . I still love the sun, love the beach, but this was a wake up call You are beautiful inside and outside, a genuine lady that cares , thank you ❤
I was lucky, my doctor removed a mole as he felt that I would return in the future to have it removed. I am glad he did. It was in the early stages. 47 years later I am still going. I get my moles checked as part of my birthday present to me. Thank you so much for doing this video. I will be emailing my friends the link to all of my friends to help keep the message going. I live in the Melanoma Capital - Townsville.
That was excellent! Than you very much for telling your story and for the others who contributed to this. As an 18 year melanoma survivor and many other skin cancers (I've had them all) it reminded me to be much more careful. I grew up near the beaches of Southern California, and would burn every summer swimming and trying to get a tan like my friends who tanned well. We were all blonde, light eyes, but I had freckles and would not tan. I thought if I just stay out a little longer, I'll tan. I moved to Texas and the brutal summer heat (7 months of the year) kept me in doors most of the time. I started wearing hats and covering up and of course got my skin checked every 6 months. Despite being very careful, I had Moh's on my ear in 2019 for a BCC. A baseball cap does not cut it. Thank you again for doing this documentary. I know it will save lives. You are a beautiful person inside and out and I wish you well.
I was diagnosed with Nodular Melanoma in January 2016. After removing the primary mole (half the size of a pencil eraser) on my back (7" scar) and an affected lymph node (3"scar) making me stage 3/4, I went through 3 years of Immunotherapy (Ipilimumab, Yervoy). The new immuno drugs have effectively doubled life expectancy to 30% for 5 year survival. It's now Nov. 2023 and I'm still here 7 years later. 15 years ago there would only have been chemo therapy offering only a 12% chance to live 5 years. DO NOT DELAY if you have any question about something that doesn't feel or look right. See a dermatologist, save your life.
I never went out in the sun if I didn't have to as an adult and I still had it on my back left shoulder area. Now I have a ten inch scar and am going through Immunotherapy with Keytruda so that it doesn't come back. Mine had gotten to be stage 3 before I finally found a surgeon that took ny insurance to get rid of it . My treatments are once every 3 weeks and blood tests a week before. If it wasn't for my husband and daughter nagging at me to get it checked I wouldn't have done it as soon as I did.
Hey there, I was stage 3 when diagnosed as well. 1B on my arm but then it of course traveled to my sentinel lymph node so stage 3A by the time I got my pet scan. I’m working on 3 months into opdivo. No clue if it will work or if it will spread. My genetic testing that they did on the node was inconclusive because the sample was too small so we are kind of taking a shot into the dark as far as what treatment to use. Doctor seems hesitant to test my primary tumor for whatever reason. Hope you’re doing well. My biggest side effect seems to be fatigue. Hoping for a clean second scan this month.
not just that reason people tan to maximized the vitudim d production through the year. so tan in the summer pale by winter. For skin type 3 can safety handle uv index of 10 if their tan is up. Sydney Australia it can get up to 14. Skin type 3 is at risk of burning if get above uv index of 12. Tanner in midwest of usa have low skin cancer rates if they allow their skin adapt to sun since the sun is weaker here. also different skin type of different tanning response. skin type four has more aggressive tanning response to the same uv radiation than skin type 3. a Tanning response and range is base certain latitude in north hemisphere. the problem with Austria you need to greater than skin type 4 handle the sun with no protection.
I think all of you are amazing putting this together for everyone to see. My dad has terminal cancer and also skin cancer on his head which was operated on. It was around a major blood vessel so they couldn’t remove it all and he know he went through hell from that surgery. Keep safe over there in the sun. Love from the uk
An enlightening positive discussion and very personal journey documented, thank you. It took 5 years of being misdiagnosed (treated with steroid creams, antibacterial creams) by different doctors until a new GP did a biopsy. Result was melanoma. Trust your instinct
I am in the USA and am very fair skinned. Just finished my melanoma treatment for early stage melanoma on my face and I am now in the "Scar" club. Thank you for sharing this message.
My skin cancer was not caused by the sun. During my first year of life, I received 4 Radium Treatments. I now have recurring basal cell carcinomas plus squamous cell and one melanoma. These are continually "popping" up, requiring regular surgeries and special Mohs, since most of them are on my face where the radium was used to remove the birthmark. That is a period of 82 years, and it is still popping up. This has nothing to do with sun exposure.
Not sure where you missed the point, but Melanoma most definitely is related to the sun and predominant in fair skinned people. smh that you missed that.... holy moly
@@nunya2954 It would make more sense to have the melanoma on my back to have been caused by sun exposure, but since I had the radium treatments when I was still an infant, under 1 year old, it could have reached anywhere on my tiny body. I didn't miss the point of sun exposure, but there is always "another side of the story."
@@janetwolfe6972 The sun is literally blasting UVA/UVB radiation to Earth. Just like radium, it causes radiation damage to DNA, and skin cancer. Both radiation.
The ancestors to the Australians are mostly from Ireland and England, evolutionary not adapted to the sun. That’s why skin cancer is so prevalent in Australia. But the surgeons are very skilled. 🌹
@@nunya2954 seems you missed her point, when she stated that it's MY SKIN CANCER. You're so ready to be a C U Next Tuesday, that you've missed her point! They make medication for your problem; take some, immediately, if not sooner.
I'm blue eyed, was a blonde, lived in the mostly cloudy and wet UK all my life and never liked sunbathing on the rare occasions the sun does come out ..... and at age 69 I've just had a BCC removed. You gotta take great care folks!
Thank you for telling your story ..i too loved the sun and just had the right side of my face removed from Melanoma....im on my 2nd plastic surgery to put my face back together...my mother always told me i would regret laying in the sun...sad
I put mine off because I haven’t had a place to live. I finally went and it’s aggressive malignant melanoma on my breast. I had surgery 9-18-23 5 inches on my breast and several lymph node’s gone….now I wait. I’m scared I will be doing treatments out of my car. Please pray for me God bless you all
Absolutely wonderful video. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT. I’m a retired nurse (I’m 72) from America. I used to be a major sun worshiper. No my 19 year old granddaughter goes to collage in Florida I sent her this video. My respect and love to all ❣️❣️❣️
I’m a sun worshipper. I grew up in the 80’s where you would use suntanning oils and be in the sun all day. I’m 59 and just got an abnormal spot cut out of me yesterday 10/28/24. I haven’t gotten the results back yet. Next month I get something cut out on my back as well. The thing is, I do use sunscreen now, but still lay out in the sun without a hat or umbrella.
Here in the southern US, you guys don't have much on us. I've had a BCC and my wife a stage 0 melanoma. I didn't really like the sun but I hated the feel of sunscreen and I'm old enough to have been in the sun before the invention of sun screens. I sit here today on day 12 of a 14 day Fluorouracil treatment and I look like hell. From this day forward whether going outside or not, I will put on a brad spectrum sunscreen. I'm convinced we should not allow our skin to be exposed to the sun. Long sleeves and long pants and sunscreen in between. I just hope my kids will raise their children to be sun aware.
I felt like I was watching a PSA from the early 2000s. Absolutely crazy* also a little sun is necessary to prevent vitamin d.deficiency. I see a few of the doctors taking an extreme view /advice. All the information has been out there forever. Sad
Funnily enough you'd think that it was the most sunny countries that had the highest occurrence of skin cancers. However, under Australia, New Zealand and scandinavia/northern europe are just ranked underneath in top ten of countries with most skin cancer. And winter sunlight makes it a lot worse, but people tend to neglect that. And also not to forget tanning beds.
What I want to know is how do doctors detect the skin cancer? . I saw her going into a scan.. in the USA we don’t use that to find cancer, at least I don’t think, do we? Can anyone help me with this bc I go for check ups and they don’t look in my scalp under my tongue between my toes. Or at my privates,. Or scalp. I basically show them stuff that’s changed and she looks w magnifier and says yep biopsy it or nope you’re good. I’ve had Basil Cell and AK (?). All have been removed and stitched up. I often don’t believe they’d have found it if I hadn’t shown the docs. Are there new scanners? The photo thing was cool. I did a chemical peel and you can see spots arise like in those photos! Little like Oreo cookie crumbs and then your skin heal and they go away. Do for not deep cancer docs say that can help a little. I dunno.
Here in the US dermatologist automatically do a yearly head to toe including scalp &in between the toes. But I think you're right if you're talking about the regular family doctor. They don't always recognize it
Thanks for sharing this excellent, informative documentary. I’ve had many, many moles removed over the years. Two recently were melanoma. I’ve been wearing rash shirts for twenty years however the damage was done many years ago as a teenager. Cover up people!
My maternal ancestors were Scottish, so I inherited the light skin that was targeted by the sun's rays. But it wasn't the sun as much as the radium, which the sun also has, that was applied to attempt to clear up my birthmark. This was before I was exposed to the sun; I was born with the birthmark.
I fell asleep, using the sunlamp myself in high school fell asleep on the couch woke up when I’m not sure, but I was so burnt I cannot open my eyes and felt like there was sand under my eye lids
What’s an interesting and useful documentary at all, impressive as we don’t give the real value for one of the most dangerous thing in the world, the simple act of sunbathing can damage and create on us a huge life changing, just the action of applying sunscreen could give us more quality of life and save so many ❤❤❤
Shouldn’t it be similar to the drinking and driving campaigns when they used shock and awe? As somebody who grew up on Australia it was never drilled home that the accumulation over time makes a difference. Tell people about margins good tissue bad tissue show the outcomes. Show them how medieval the treatments can be.
the skin is reflective of the life lived, one of sailing, having fun at the beach, working under the beating sun, vacationing to sunny areas, snorkeling under the sun, surfing in the sun, hiking on a clear day, biking in easy weather, etc.
I’m the video you see her delicately dabbing her face with sunscreen. You should not be delicate with sunscreen! Slab it on. Especially if you’ve had melanoma.
i do love this video and these ladies in specific have nothing to do with my critique. might be insensitive but it’s coming from my frustration. Can we see more stories of non privileged people’s survival stories?
All he wants and expects is a "few million dollars" ... haha ... a few million $$ 🙈 ... well ... I wouldn't mind a few millions ... in fact, I'd be more than happy with just one!!
What a waste of time. This is just a shallow congratulation of a couple of beautiful people. There was no digging into the process of treatment and recovery, no real insight into that one trucker's impacts on family and livelihood, spent way too much time on a pretty young girl who never even spoke and had no real lasting consequences beyond a scar on her lower leg. This piece is unlikely to have a lasting effect on a viewer.
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Great show but why not show the most important thing…..photos of the mole or area that proved to be a melanoma?
My first question too..
My mole did not look „abnormal“. Even the specialist said it is probably nothing but to be sure we will take it out. Two days ago I got a phone call with the results: malignant melanoma. Next week I am going in for a second op to remove the area even further.
Get yourself checked is all I can say and when in doubt out with it.
There are plenty online
EXACTLY
Because it’s not helpful. My most ugly, suspicious looking moles turned out to be fine. It was a tiny innocent looking freckle that turned out to be melanoma. It can look like anything really and I don’t think pictures are helpful. I think everyone should get checked once a year
I sat and watched this and it was such a great message, my husband died of melanoma at 31, i was over 8 months pregnant .
I still love the sun, love the beach, but this was a wake up call
You are beautiful inside and outside, a genuine lady that cares , thank you ❤
I was lucky, my doctor removed a mole as he felt that I would return in the future to have it removed. I am glad he did. It was in the early stages. 47 years later I am still going. I get my moles checked as part of my birthday present to me. Thank you so much for doing this video. I will be emailing my friends the link to all of my friends to help keep the message going. I live in the Melanoma Capital - Townsville.
Sir how big your mole was ? I got diagnosed with acral melamona and this was 4 mm in diameter . I don't how thick it was
That was excellent! Than you very much for telling your story and for the others who contributed to this. As an 18 year melanoma survivor and many other skin cancers (I've had them all) it reminded me to be much more careful. I grew up near the beaches of Southern California, and would burn every summer swimming and trying to get a tan like my friends who tanned well. We were all blonde, light eyes, but I had freckles and would not tan. I thought if I just stay out a little longer, I'll tan. I moved to Texas and the brutal summer heat (7 months of the year) kept me in doors most of the time. I started wearing hats and covering up and of course got my skin checked every 6 months. Despite being very careful, I had Moh's on my ear in 2019 for a BCC. A baseball cap does not cut it. Thank you again for doing this documentary. I know it will save lives. You are a beautiful person inside and out and I wish you well.
I was diagnosed with Nodular Melanoma in January 2016. After removing the primary mole (half the size of a pencil eraser) on my back (7" scar) and an affected lymph node (3"scar) making me stage 3/4, I went through 3 years of Immunotherapy (Ipilimumab, Yervoy). The new immuno drugs have effectively doubled life expectancy to 30% for 5 year survival. It's now Nov. 2023 and I'm still here 7 years later. 15 years ago there would only have been chemo therapy offering only a 12% chance to live 5 years.
DO NOT DELAY if you have any question about something that doesn't feel or look right. See a dermatologist, save your life.
God bless you
Bless all of you !!!!
She's still so gorgeous at 60!! Wow! I can only pray I look that great as her at 60!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!! WORK IT SIS!!!!!!
I never went out in the sun if I didn't have to as an adult and I still had it on my back left shoulder area. Now I have a ten inch scar and am going through Immunotherapy with Keytruda so that it doesn't come back. Mine had gotten to be stage 3 before I finally found a surgeon that took ny insurance to get rid of it . My treatments are once every 3 weeks and blood tests a week before. If it wasn't for my husband and daughter nagging at me to get it checked I wouldn't have done it as soon as I did.
Hey there, I was stage 3 when diagnosed as well. 1B on my arm but then it of course traveled to my sentinel lymph node so stage 3A by the time I got my pet scan.
I’m working on 3 months into opdivo. No clue if it will work or if it will spread. My genetic testing that they did on the node was inconclusive because the sample was too small so we are kind of taking a shot into the dark as far as what treatment to use. Doctor seems hesitant to test my primary tumor for whatever reason.
Hope you’re doing well. My biggest side effect seems to be fatigue. Hoping for a clean second scan this month.
They screwed up when they labeled it a 'tan.' The darkening is the skin trying to protect itself.
not just that reason people tan to maximized the vitudim d production through the year. so tan in the summer pale by winter. For skin type 3 can safety handle uv index of 10 if their tan is up. Sydney Australia it can get up to 14. Skin type 3 is at risk of burning if get above uv index of 12. Tanner in midwest of usa have low skin cancer rates if they allow their skin adapt to sun since the sun is weaker here. also different skin type of different tanning response. skin type four has more aggressive tanning response to the same uv radiation than skin type 3. a Tanning response and range is base certain latitude in north hemisphere. the problem with Austria you need to greater than skin type 4 handle the sun with no protection.
I think all of you are amazing putting this together for everyone to see. My dad has terminal cancer and also skin cancer on his head which was operated on. It was around a major blood vessel so they couldn’t remove it all and he know he went through hell from that surgery. Keep safe over there in the sun. Love from the uk
An enlightening positive discussion and very personal journey documented, thank you.
It took 5 years of being misdiagnosed (treated with steroid creams, antibacterial creams) by different doctors until a new GP did a biopsy. Result was melanoma. Trust your instinct
I am in the USA and am very fair skinned. Just finished my melanoma treatment for early stage melanoma on my face and I am now in the "Scar" club. Thank you for sharing this message.
My skin cancer was not caused by the sun. During my first year of life, I received 4 Radium Treatments. I now have recurring basal cell carcinomas plus squamous cell and one melanoma. These are continually "popping" up, requiring regular surgeries and special Mohs, since most of them are on my face where the radium was used to remove the birthmark. That is a period of 82 years, and it is still popping up. This has nothing to do with sun exposure.
Not sure where you missed the point, but Melanoma most definitely is related to the sun and predominant in fair skinned people. smh that you missed that.... holy moly
@@nunya2954 It would make more sense to have the melanoma on my back to have been caused by sun exposure, but since I had the radium treatments when I was still an infant, under 1 year old, it could have reached anywhere on my tiny body. I didn't miss the point of sun exposure, but there is always "another side of the story."
@@janetwolfe6972 The sun is literally blasting UVA/UVB radiation to Earth. Just like radium, it causes radiation damage to DNA, and skin cancer. Both radiation.
The ancestors to the Australians are mostly from Ireland and England, evolutionary not adapted to the sun. That’s why skin cancer is so prevalent in Australia. But the surgeons are very skilled. 🌹
@@nunya2954 seems you missed her point, when she stated that it's MY SKIN CANCER. You're so ready to be a C U Next Tuesday, that you've missed her point! They make medication for your problem; take some, immediately, if not sooner.
I'm blue eyed, was a blonde, lived in the mostly cloudy and wet UK all my life and never liked sunbathing on the rare occasions the sun does come out ..... and at age 69 I've just had a BCC removed. You gotta take great care folks!
Thank you for telling your story ..i too loved the sun and just had the right side of my face removed from Melanoma....im on my 2nd plastic surgery to put my face back together...my mother always told me i would regret laying in the sun...sad
I put mine off because I haven’t had a place to live. I finally went and it’s aggressive malignant melanoma on my breast. I had surgery 9-18-23 5 inches on my breast and several lymph node’s gone….now I wait. I’m scared I will be doing treatments out of my car. Please pray for me God bless you all
Its scary the ammount of young people in Australia that die from skin cancer, it really shocked me moving there and learning that 💔
Absolutely wonderful video. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT.
I’m a retired nurse (I’m 72) from America. I used to be a major sun worshiper. No my 19 year old granddaughter goes to collage in Florida I sent her this video. My respect and love to all ❣️❣️❣️
I’m a sun worshipper. I grew up in the 80’s where you would use suntanning oils and be in the sun all day. I’m 59 and just got an abnormal spot cut out of me yesterday 10/28/24. I haven’t gotten the results back yet. Next month I get something cut out on my back as well. The thing is, I do use sunscreen now, but still lay out in the sun without a hat or umbrella.
Deb, how amazing you are. What a gigantic heart. What an amazing, wonderful personality, what a fun and brave woman.
Here in the southern US, you guys don't have much on us. I've had a BCC and my wife a stage 0 melanoma. I didn't really like the sun but I hated the feel of sunscreen and I'm old enough to have been in the sun before the invention of sun screens. I sit here today on day 12 of a 14 day Fluorouracil treatment and I look like hell. From this day forward whether going outside or not, I will put on a brad spectrum sunscreen. I'm convinced we should not allow our skin to be exposed to the sun. Long sleeves and long pants and sunscreen in between. I just hope my kids will raise their children to be sun aware.
I felt like I was watching a PSA from the early 2000s.
Absolutely crazy* also a little sun is necessary to prevent vitamin d.deficiency. I see a few of the doctors taking an extreme view /advice.
All the information has been out there forever. Sad
U r beautiful. Ty for sharing ur story. What a wonderful person who has saved soooo many lives
My wife had melanoma at 13. It hasn’t returned and she is now 71.
Wonderful documentary . Thankyou to Deb for sharing your story and also to all who shared their stories. A must watch for everyone. TFS.
Funnily enough you'd think that it was the most sunny countries that had the highest occurrence of skin cancers. However, under Australia, New Zealand and scandinavia/northern europe are just ranked underneath in top ten of countries with most skin cancer. And winter sunlight makes it a lot worse, but people tend to neglect that. And also not to forget tanning beds.
Thank you team what a amazing show. Your fight will be my fight and together we will save lives.
I love Australia. I miss it there so much
What I want to know is how do doctors detect the skin cancer? . I saw her going into a scan.. in the USA we don’t use that to find cancer, at least I don’t think, do we? Can anyone help me with this bc I go for check ups and they don’t look in my scalp under my tongue between my toes. Or at my privates,. Or scalp. I basically show them stuff that’s changed and she looks w magnifier and says yep biopsy it or nope you’re good. I’ve had Basil Cell and AK (?). All have been removed and stitched up. I often don’t believe they’d have found it if I hadn’t shown the docs. Are there new scanners?
The photo thing was cool. I did a chemical peel and you can see spots arise like in those photos! Little like Oreo cookie crumbs and then your skin heal and they go away. Do for not deep cancer docs say that can help a little. I dunno.
Here in the US dermatologist automatically do a yearly head to toe including scalp &in between the toes. But I think you're right if you're talking about the regular family doctor. They don't always recognize it
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Thanks for sharing this excellent, informative documentary. I’ve had many, many moles removed over the years. Two recently were melanoma. I’ve been wearing rash shirts for twenty years however the damage was done many years ago as a teenager. Cover up people!
Well developed show. The presenter was excellent. Would like to see more.
Good info. Take care.
My maternal ancestors were Scottish, so I inherited the light skin that was targeted by the sun's rays. But it wasn't the sun as much as the radium, which the sun also has, that was applied to attempt to clear up my birthmark. This was before I was exposed to the sun; I was born with the birthmark.
I fell asleep, using the sunlamp myself in high school fell asleep on the couch woke up when I’m not sure, but I was so burnt I cannot open my eyes and felt like there was sand under my eye lids
Thank god for melanin 🤗
I think South Africa and Namibia where I live is also high on tje list for uv rates!
I’ve had squamous cell. Carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and melanoma. I need to be checked again
BTW I grew up in Delaware USA and in 1998 I moved to Florida The Sunshine State
What’s an interesting and useful documentary at all, impressive as we don’t give the real value for one of the most dangerous thing in the world, the simple act of sunbathing can damage and create on us a huge life changing, just the action of applying sunscreen could give us more quality of life and save so many ❤❤❤
Shouldn’t it be similar to the drinking and driving campaigns when they used shock and awe? As somebody who grew up on Australia it was never drilled home that the accumulation over time makes a difference. Tell people about margins good tissue bad tissue show the outcomes. Show them how medieval the treatments can be.
the skin is reflective of the life lived, one of sailing, having fun at the beach, working under the beating sun, vacationing to sunny areas, snorkeling under the sun, surfing in the sun, hiking on a clear day, biking in easy weather, etc.
That's the good side of life in the sun. This is the price you can pay.
I’m the video you see her delicately dabbing her face with sunscreen. You should not be delicate with sunscreen! Slab it on. Especially if you’ve had melanoma.
A lot to be said for covering head and shoulders when driving, like muslim women.
Also arm covers.
So did the trucker have melanoma?
The lady who had melanoma in her hair said that she had level 5. What did she mean?
20:56 but why?
As I sit with stitches in my scalp from having cancer removed. 🥵
Shocked yes but still not protecting themselves from the sun. This is so sad and so avoidable.
She says standing in the sun.
Yikes, 😮I know that had to have hurt.?
Exactly. That po’d me.
Stack up on vitamin D
But pale is in fashion?? When I was signed to a reputable Australian modelling agency 10 years ago I was told to keep pale and not go in the sun...
i do love this video and these ladies in specific have nothing to do with my critique. might be insensitive but it’s coming from my frustration. Can we see more stories of non privileged people’s survival stories?
Do Aboriginal Australians get this?
Anyone can get skin cancer.
Yes they do, but happens more frequently for those with a lighter skin tone.
All he wants and expects is a "few million dollars" ... haha ... a few million $$ 🙈
... well ... I wouldn't mind a few millions ... in fact, I'd be more than happy with just one!!
Too long. Get to the point.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️🇧🇸
What a waste of time. This is just a shallow congratulation of a couple of beautiful people. There was no digging into the process of treatment and recovery, no real insight into that one trucker's impacts on family and livelihood, spent way too much time on a pretty young girl who never even spoke and had no real lasting consequences beyond a scar on her lower leg. This piece is unlikely to have a lasting effect on a viewer.
And damn girl you look incredible for 60!!!
A "model" for what? Before pictures?
Sunblock will do this
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Many studies have not shown that.