August
2008
Photo on web saves life
An amazing story which shows how important it is for the general public to be aware of what some cancers can present outwardly as symptoms.
“Madeleine Robb spotted the unusual shadow in the left eye of one-year-old Rowan Santos’s emailed picture. Suspecting there was something wrong, she went on to the internet to find out more and discovered it might be cancer. She immediately emailed Rowan’s mum Megan at her home in Florida, America, to warn her. Within hours, Mrs Santos had taken the baby to a doctor, who found she had eye cancer retinoblastoma”.
What I take from this is imagine the number of moles which don’t look right? People tend to know what is and what isn’t right, but 3 simple rules known as the ABC of melanoma can, very much like this story, be a life saver. Thus it makes sense for people to stop talking about the sun 
