May
2008
Rash of stories
Unfortunatly the US presidential race just took another nasty turn with Senator John McCain’s melanoma coming out of the shadows and into the sunlight.
Already Barrack has used McCain’s survival as a swipe and he’s not alone as I’ve seen bloggers across the web pick up on this too. While it’s good that melanoma is now getting some higher profile names mentioned and thus getting mentioned in the press etc it has to be upsetting for John as it wouldn’t affect his ability to do the job at hand.
Ewan Mcgregor
Recently a much loved British actor spoke of his run in with skin cancer, but details seem vauge and as such I can’t work out if Ewan’s run in was with Melanoma or Non-melanoma, we can only hope it was either the latter or a very shallow melanoma. It was a good positive story hopefully which will encourage young men in particular to seek advice from their GP if they suspect something is wrong with a mole or group of moles.
Scotish Football - Celtic Legend Tommy Burns Dies
Story has been around today in fact. From looking into the story, again details are a little vauge, it looks like we’ve lost another high profile melanoma warrior. From what I can make out Tommy Burns was diagnosed with melanoma in early 2006. The story has been getting coverage but melanoma has not been mentioned, so the public in the UK are now unable to tell why Ewan Mcgregor will make it and why the odds were stacked against Tommy.
There is no difference being made in the press as to why Non-melanoma is a lot less serious than Melanoma, so I feel I should recap that it’s all to do with the direction of growth. Melanoma’s dig downwards into the lower layers of skin, so action is needed as soon as possible, non-melanomas tend to stay in the upper layers of skin and are as such a lot less life threatening.
If you are concerned, google “The ABC of melanoma”.
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English Football - Bobby Robson
We can only hope Bobby Robson will carry on with his not so recent discovery of a very rare melanoma skin cancer.
A list of famous people who had melanoma
- Eva Cassidy
- Pat Sharpe
- Bob Marley
And Non-nelanoma
- Bill Clinton
While it’s saddening that more people are being affected by skin cancer, it is a great opportunity for the media to start educating people about skin cancer and not about the sun. We can only hope anyway.
