After two operations to remove skin cancer from his face, Nine's Michael Genovese shares his message to all Aussies. 9News
The ironic part is that I remember almost all the song's lyrics, having downloaded it for free via Napster while I was in high school.There was no suspicious mole or freckle.Certainly not something that screamed "cancer!"
Luhrmann produced the song using lyrics written by an American journalist, who penned a newspaper column aimed at high school graduates.th"Don't feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life." Double tick.Thinking back, I can't find a good reason for not wearing sunscreen while I was growing up. Only that it was a mild inconvenience.
For years, I would happily burn while playing footy or at the beach, and then enjoy a tan two days later.I would never drink and drive, but I regularly "cooked for looks".He explained to me that BCC's are the "friendliest of cancers" that - if left unchecked - could graduate into something much angrier.I was 26 when I had a diamond shaped chunk of my forehead removed.
Friends and relatives 20 to 30 years older than me have similar stories, but mates my age are invariably surprised to hear I've had two carcinomas cut out.They'll see the scar and rightly ask a series of rapid-fire questions:Often while touching their own face mid-sentence or volunteering a look at their least favourite freckle.Neither of the cancers looked like a mole or a freckle.Skin cancer clinics are simple to book and appointments are quick.
I'm now 32 and dermatologists are telling me that the damage has already been done, and to expect more BCCs as I age.It's the "you've only got yourself to blame" kind of disappointment.I wear 50+SPF UVB + UVA sunscreen daily. I hate it.But it's roughly one million times better than the alternative; the smell of your own cauterised flesh, more scars and, God forbid, a malignant melanoma.
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