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Don’t Let skin Cancer Get Under Your Skin The most serious form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma can present differently in darker skinned patients, more frequently occurring on their palms or soles. Patients are often not aware that it is possible to develop skin cancers at these sites and physician misdiagnosis can also occur

The most serious form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma can present differently in darker skinned patients, more frequently occurring on their palms or soles. Patients are often not aware that it is possible to develop skin cancers at these sites. Even doctors can fail to diagnose melenomas on black skin as their medical textbooks include almost no representations of diseases on pigmented skin.

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Melanoma is most common in white skin than black skin but Black people are more likely to die from it.

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“An average

five-year melanoma survival rate of only 67 % in Black people versus 92% in white people.”

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