Dyplastic Nevus
There’s still a lot of summer left; in fact, the hot weather is making the beach and pool look really good. But the accumulated sun exposure, as I’m certain you’ve heard, puts us at risk for skin cancer, and precancrous lesions.
How do you know if a freckle is something to worry about?
Many of us, like Buffy Schneit, don’t even think about it. “Most people spend their summer sin the sun so you don’t think anything is going to happen to you.”
Buffy has been a sun lover for her entire life and has never thought about getting her skin checked, until she went to a free screening.
“They said lets check this one freckle and I said ok and they scarped this one freckle, I didn’t think anything again and when they went back to the results. They said, oh, you have a dysplastic nevus. It was very scary.”
Scary--because dysplastic nevus, which is an unusual mole, can, if unchecked, become cancerous. (Read more about Dyplastic Nevus)
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