About Skin Cancers
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Medical Advisor for Melanoma UK and Clinical Lead for Skin Cancer at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, Wayne Jaffe, joins #YouMeBigC.
Kate Cochrane also joins Debs, Lauren and Steve to talk about her experiences of having melanoma.
Don't forget, you can get in touch by using the #YouMeBigC across all forms of social media - spread the word and share the positive support.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:07.0 | So I won't know for, yeah, for another six years, whether I received the placebo or |
| 0:19.6 | whether I received T-veg, but I mean, you know, I strongly suspect the results are so |
| 0:23.5 | quick that I would be really shocked if it was the placebo or not T-veg. That's incredible. |
| 0:30.5 | That's bonkers. And so now we're all about faces, we're all about Christmas trees, but |
| 0:36.5 | wow, six years! |
| 0:39.5 | Hello and welcome to You Me in the Big Sea with me, Deborah James, otherwise known as |
| 0:52.5 | Balbae, Lauren Mann, a better known or socials as Gal vs. Cancer. Hello and Steve Bland, |
| 0:59.4 | who is still Steve Bland. Welcome Steve again. |
| 1:03.5 | If you've just started listening to this podcast, we've covered loads of topics and spoken |
| 1:09.4 | to all sorts of guests. All these podcasts are available right now on BBC Sounds and |
| 1:14.2 | other podcast places. Also, we love to hear from you. Get in touch with us by using the |
| 1:19.6 | hashtag You Me Big Sea across all forms of social media. |
| 1:23.7 | And since we came back after the summer, we've been trying to look at some of the cancers |
| 1:26.7 | that we haven't yet talked about as much. And today we're going to be talking about |
| 1:29.9 | skin cancers. A bit later, Kate Cockroon will be joining us to talk about her experiences |
| 1:34.6 | of having melanoma. Melanoma skin cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, accounting |
| 1:39.5 | for 4% of all new cancer cases. There were around 16,200 new melanoma skin cancer cases |
| 1:45.8 | in the UK every year. That's 44 instances every single day. |
| 1:50.9 | In the minute we're going to chat to an expert who's going to tell us all about skin cancer, |
| 1:54.4 | all about melanoma, all about the different types of skin cancer. But before we do that, |
| 1:59.4 | I guess girls, it's something that we've all got kind of experience. We've all been out |
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