19/05/2020
📍 Since the 1990s, skin cancer rates in females have increased by about two times, in males they have tripled.
📍 We know that most of our community are women, so ladies, as part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, we're asking you to skin check the men in your lives or encourage them to check themselves - partners, fathers, brothers, friends, clients, patients, all of them.
💛Tell them it's ok to borrow your sunscreen or gift them a bottle of their own. Let's work together to change these statistics.💛
Top tips for skin checks:
✅An ideal time to check your skin is after a bath or shower
✅Make sure you check your skin in a room with plenty of light
✅Use a full-length mirror and a hand-held mirror
✅Check yourself thoroughly from head to toe:
✅Look at your face, neck, ears, and scalp.
✅When checking your scalp use a comb or a blow dryer to move your hair so that you can see better, or ask a relative or friend to check through your hair as it can be hard to check by yourself.
✅Look at the front and back of your body in the mirror. Again asking someone to help you check hard to see places like your back can be helpful.
✅Make sure you thoroughly check your entire body.
✅Remember to raise your arms and check your left and right sides.
✅Remember to check the following areas where signs and symptoms can go unnoticed:
Fingernails, and the palms of your hands.
The ge***al area, between your buttocks and under breasts.
Your feet, including your toenails, your soles, and the spaces between your toes.
✅Repeat every month!
Basic warning signs to look out for:
📍A growth that increases in size and appears pearly, translucent, tan, brown, black, or multi-coloured
📍A mole (that looks different from your other moles)
📍A mole, birthmark, beauty mark, or any brown spot that:
- Varies in colour
- Increases in size or thickness
- Changes in texture
- Is irregular in outline
- Is bigger than 6mm or 1/4", the size of a pencil eraser
- Appears after age 21
📍A new red or darker colour flaky patch that may be a little raised
📍A new flesh-coloured firm bump
📍An open sore that doesn't heal
📍A spot or sore that continues to itch, hurt, crust, scab, erode, or bleed
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