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Awareness of malignancy in flesh coloured lesions highlighted
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Only four in 10 people would seek attention for less well-understood skin cancer signs like lumps, spots and rough, scaly patches on the skin, a survey by the Irish Cancer Society has revealed.
“Most patients are aware that a new or changing mole should warrant advice from their GP however many are surprised when a flesh-coloured lesion is diagnosed as a malignancy,”
Dr Bláithín Moriarty, Consultant Dermatologist at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin told
Irish Medical Times.