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Cancer Oral Presentation

Good afternoon residents of Balle Cara – ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you all now to take a moment, clear your minds of any distracting thoughts and see if you can picture this scenario as I describe it.

Consider this – You wake up one fine summer’s morning, as you would usually do. Today however, you’re feeling ever so mildly ill. Almost immediately you realise that cause of this, you’re red with sunburn.

For most of the previous day you spent enjoying yourself in the sun and did not make much of an effort to protect yourself with sun cream or a hat. So you’re are suffering from a mild sun sickness. So you decide to have a shower to freshen yourself up for the day ahead. The cool water pouring all over in the shower allows you to detect something else out of the ordinary. There’s a funny, sore feeling emitting from the far side of your left arm. So you decide to inspect the case of this ache. It’s one of your moles. A previously tiny little thing that you’ve had since you were a child. However it has gone through some significant changes since you last inspected it.

It’s gone from the small well rounded little thing to a giant, crooked shaped horrible black thing, something that looks like this (show ref.1) really hot and bumpy to touch. You don’t realise it yet, but your once friendly little mole has turned into a fully-grown melanoma, a horrible type of skin cancer. One big enough to cause you some serious harm and even eventually kill you if it’s not removed immediately.

(pause)

Ok that’s enough pretending for now. Your probably thinking, this could never happen to me, I don’t have many moles, and the ones I do have are well under control.

Well I’m here to tell you today, ladies and gentlemen that even though you might think that was a pretty extreme scenario, something similar to that is very much a reality for many...