In order to determine how often you need to visit your dermatologist for a skin-cancer screening, you need to … see your dermatologist
Photo: Albina Glisic/Getty Images/iStockphoto Last week I went to a dermatologist I found on ZocDoc for my annual skin cancer screening, something I’ve been doing for about eight years. For the first few I still lived in Minnesota, and went to the same dermatologist year after year, which is ideal, because they get to know your freckles and if/how they change.
But I’d notice if it had cropped up in the last few months, right? I didn’t fully trust myself to know, so I let her slice the top of it off. That part was fine — it’s the two numbing shots to the face I didn’t care for. Well, that and the spontaneous bleeding it did over the next 24 hours. But even if you don’t have any of the risk factors, it’s worth seeing your dermatologist to set a personal baseline, says Stevenson. “Sometimes something you’re not aware of is something that might be suspicious to someone else,” she adds. And while fairer-skinned people are more prone to skin cancer, black patients have the worst skin cancer survival rates, likely for a number of reasons, one being that dermatologists aren’t trained to spot cancer on black skin.
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