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Went to the dermatologist yesterday. I go every six months. It's recommended that you see a dermatologist once a year. And I think it's after you reach

a certain age, and I don't remember exactly what that is, but I have reached that certain age and

long past it. And so I go twice a year because I've had not one but two cases of basal cell skin cancer.

This is the most common form of cancer in the United States.

It is rarely, rarely, rarely, almost never fatal,

but it can be disfiguring if it's not caught and removed,

because it can continue to grow.

And so my first basal cell skin cancer was in 2012,

and then my second was in 2020.

And the first time I had the skin cancer removed using laser treatment, and second time using a procedure, the common procedure,

called Mose surgery, M-O-H-S.

And so I go to the dermatologist now every six months for a full skin check to make sure everything is okay.

And yesterday everything was okay. There were two areas of what the doctor referred to as

sun-damaged skin, and they actually have a specific name, which I forget. And he said,

there is a low chance, about a 15% chance, that it could develop into squamous cell cancer, which actually can be fatal. There are

three types of, generally three types of skin cancer. There's the basal cell, the most common.

There's squamous cell, and then there's melanoma. He recommended that I either put cream on the areas or have it frozen.

He mentioned in the course of the appointment as he was seeing those two areas of sun damage,

and we were talking about my previous basal cell carcinomas.

He said it's cumulative, skin cancer is cumulative, and I immediately thought back to those vacations when I was a teenager in Cape May, New Jersey. It's a beach resort. I would spend the morning

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