This is how you recognize a melanoma in time: “There was a strange birthmark on my calf, it turned out to be wrong”

2023-06-03 16:00:00

We know that sunbathing can be harmful to the skin and that lubrication is necessary. Skin cancer is now the most common and fastest growing type of cancer. But how do you recognize a ‘wrong spot’? What treatments are there if it turns out not to be an innocent freckle? We asked internist-oncologist John Haanen: “Especially adults who were often burned as a child are at high risk.”
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