It's interesting to know that having had thyroid cancer doubles your risk...I have a sister who had thyroid cancer in her early 20's...she & another sis grew up near White Sands Missile Range and *both* developed malignant thy. cancer (!), but were successfully treated. One of them was just treated for melanoma that was caught early, thank God. I'd better tell the other sis to be careful also. I'm pale with light eyes and hair AND now a family history, so I'd better look out. Go get your skin checked each year is what my sis says! And if something just doesn't seem quite right, get yourself right away to a dr. She also now has some beautiful long-sleeved solar protection shirts & wears a sun hat outside.

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You know everyone says that skin cancer is either red or black but that is not altogether correct.
The reason why I say that I had a growth on my nose of which turned out to be cancer and it yellow in fact it looked like an piece of corn.
It came up when I used those breathe rite strip because I thought it would help me from snoring I used it twice but I thought when I removed it I was going to remove my nose so I stopped using it.
All I saw was a pimple like thing on my nose and tried everything to hope it would go away but nothing helped. One day trying to look at it the light hit in such a way it looked yellow so I went to the doctor he took a piece of it and that wasn't fun and told me to call him in two (2) weeks. He told me to come into his office so i did and told me it was cancer that probably started growing when I went the very first time I went to the beach when I was child. He tried to remove it but I was sent to another doctor because he had better equipment to remove it all then I went back to orginal doctor for the closing but he did so a wonderful job you can't even tell it was there but that was very scarey to think that it was there every since the first time I went to the beach and it took a breath rite strip to bring it to the surface.
The doctor told me to stay out of the sun because I am so algeric but I live in Florida and that is sort of hard but I do my best.
Just remember all cancers aren't black or brown or red.

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Ah HAH! So that's why, 8 years after getting treated for breast cancer I saw the mole on my chest that I've had all my life change, but just barely. I was paranoid about all things Ca, so went to the dermatologist and indeed, not only was my little mole (now bigger and red as opposed to brown) malignant melanoma, it required a surgery that took a lot of the area around it, leaving me with a huge scar.
So, folks, it's true what they say up there in the article. I have no family history of either cancers and I'm a dark Italian.

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