If you have noticed a lingering spot somewhere on your skin, it would be wise not to dismiss it, especially if there’s something unusual about its appearance. Over the past three decades, rates of melanoma skin cancer have more than doubled in the UK, a trend that looks set to continue.
With the news that Sarah Ferguson has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of skin cancer, after previously battling with breast cancer, the condition has been brought to the forefront of the public’s mind once again.
Jon Medland killed himself at uni after stopping a three-week course of the drug
According to father Jonathan it was the result of a sudden psychotic episode
Rachael Edmunds slipped into a deep depression as a result of her angry acne
She hails taking Roaccutane as her best decision after seeing her skin improve
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Once, when I was living in LA, I was invited to a girlfriend’s post baby “reveal”.
Thrown by the kind of women who pressurise one another to regain both figures and freshness within weeks of childbirth, “the reveal” is a coming-out celebration at which, after a self-imposed period of hibernation/incarceration, a woman can parade around in bodycon dresses, while her friends coo: “OMG, you look, like, even better than before.”
Every woman I know (and not a few men) is now gearing up for their own spring “reveal”, after the pandemic has left the average Brit, according to cosmetic treatment company Uvence, feeling that they have aged “by at least five years”.