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I was at hospital today to get results of biopsy on a mole. It’s fine, histology was clean. Atypical moles like this one are very hard to tell apart from actual melanoma and that’s where siascopy can really give an advantage as these moles raise enough doubt for a biopsy to take place. It was a mole I had scaned with the Siascope and the Siascan said it was fine, so the products work and should be used to save biposy of everything under the sun! Seriously I now have a big scar, just because the only tool my consultant had was a histology report.

However
Because yeah nothing is that simple! While having an all over check for enlarged lymph nodes (lumps) the consultant spent a lot of time on my right arm pit and in that general area. My face was one of shock when I was sent for a chest X-Ray. While in the X-Ray dept, dad asked if he could put the Germany game on. The TV was detuned and had no real signal, so he steped on a chair to fix it, the receptionist said he could have a scan if he fell off the chair.

Chest X-Ray’s basically are a way of checking that the lungs are ok. I’m encouraged because he said the nodes in my arm pit were fine so I suspect the scan is just to be safe. I hadn’t rated the one on my arm as being any kind of threat because it was much thinner than the one on my leg. It’s suprising to me that I still have my lymph nodes, but I really had thought my arm wouldn’t cause any problems.

This sucks big time, but it can keeping sucking big time as long as the scans are clear and so on. It should be fine and it’s good these scans do happen. I said from the start of this, it could always be worse, so I’m lucky it’s not and that is still true today.

Located just outside of millenium point in Birmingham is an area set up for footie fans to see world cup matches on the big screen. It is a really neat idea, a controlled environment should mean that there is little trouble, but there’s much more to it than that as you’ll see from this photo post.

Non England games are free entry and because Brum has a fair few communites dotted about the place, even for the smallest netutral game, there is usually some supporters who turn up to cheer their team on. The following photos give an idea of the kinds of things which are down there and how show what a great idea it actually is, as screens up and down the country are being turned off due to crowd trouble.

Fan park is Birminghams controlled world cup viewing area, behold the Magenta overload!

As seen from a distance there is a huge and I mean huge wall chart, click either photo to see more!

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Full length interview broadcast on Radio Five Live at around 23:45 on Saturday 3rd June 2006.

I’m on BBC Radio 5 tonight, talking about if people are listening to the skin cancer message, if it’s working etc and if people are being forgetful. Also I hope to be scoping over the stuff about the sun protection being just half of the story and actually one of the more important things to focus on is getting people to spot the signs , having doctors keep a record of any skin changes and so all that information and awareness can be used get it dealt with early on before it starts running amok.

Tune in 22:10!

[Edit @ 22:15]
Interview moved to 23:40