Melanoma moles?!
Question:
Melanoma moles?
okay, lately ive been reading all the teen magazines, like 17, glamor and cosmo. and they are all scaring my sh**less about melanoma. what worries me most is that i never really payed attention to my "mole" until i read this magazine. and it said asymmetrical borders which is just killing me because i seem to have like this small mole on my stomach but i never remembered it being exactly round or symmetrical throughout my life. and its freaking me out, it doesn't look super asymmetrical just not perfectly round, and i really don't no if it could be malenoma or not. i asked my mom which is a nurse and she said that it isnt but im still skeptical. i keep telling myself its not possible since i only tanned 5 times at a tanning salon, and i tan outside, and im only 15. also my sisters which are both almost 30 tanned so much in their teen years but theres nothing wrong, same with my mom who tanned a lot too. im not goin to the doc N.E.timesoon. anyone has personal experience with M. moles?
Answers:
A mole doesn't have to be perfectly symmetrical. If your mole is like that for as far as you can remember, if it doesn't grow and doesn't change within months, it's not melanoma. You are not too young to have melanoma, I had a student who had a melanoma at 19 years old and the fact that your sister tanned more than you and doesn't have melanoma doesn't mean a thing. My student never used a tanning salon and she still had melanoma.
I suggest you to watch your mole and if it doesn't grow or change, leave it alone.
Here I wrote something about melanoma:
http://www.newcancerguide.com/tag/skin-c...