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May, and the one question worth asking your family this month
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Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month runs through May, and the useful version of an awareness month is a specific action rather than a statistic. The action we would suggest is a conversation: ask the adults in your household when someone last examined their back, their posterior scalp, and the soles of their feet. Those are the sites where diagnosis is most often delayed, for the obvious reason that nobody can see them. The pattern in this practice is consistent, and it shows up in the reviews on file: people book after somebody else prompted them, not after reading a statistic. A daughter sends a video. A spouse notices something at the beach. That is the mechanism this month can actually use. Full-body checks are available with Dr. Venable throughout May and thereafter, and if there is something specific you are already wondering about, do not wait for a scheduled annual, call about that thing.
Call to action. Ask one person in your house when they last had their back checked.