NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/k12/chat/teacher/5954

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Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!puddle!f20.n772.z3.fidonet.org!Terry.Bowden
From: [e-mail] (Terry Bowden)
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Subject: Skin cancers and such
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 01:16:28 PDT
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Peter, your message:
PM>Why tell all this?  Well, we're first, down here in the south, but the
PM>way the ozone layer is going, people in the rest of the world need to
PM>wake up quickly as well. I've had close to half a century of exposure,
PM>and I am a medium risk.  I could have been a low risk, if we had
PM>realised sooner what we were doing to ourselves.

PM>Melanoma is the real worry, because that metastatises, says my quack: it
PM>goes on little colonising expeditions, all over the body.  The other
PM>skin cancers can be knocked off if they are caught in time.  Australia
PM>now, New Zealand too, probably, but how about all you Aspen snow
PM>bunnies? Did you stop to think what risks you are taking?

                      sure rang a bell with me.
I was in Melbourne recently, and saw a public display prepared
by the Health Dept, showing photos of various skin cancers.
One particular malignant one gave me a shock, it looked just
like an annoying blob that I've had on my back for a couple
of months now, and it wouldn't go away. I rushed off to my
local skin specialist on my return home. He inspected it and told
me to stop picking at it!
Still, it's better to be safe and check these things out.
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