GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Summer is the time we spend hours outdoors enjoying the warm weather, but months in the sun increases our risk of skin cancer.
24 Hour News 8 talked with Priority Health’s Chief Medical Officer James Forshee about how to identify potential skin problems at before it becomes cancerous.
Forshee recommended everyone to do an at home skin cancer self-exam once a month.
“It’s really a fairly simple process, standing in front of the mirror without your clothes on, just starting at the top inside your hair, your ears, inside of your neck, the folds under your arms, the back of your arms,” said Forshee. “You need to use a mirror sometimes to see your back a little bit better, same thing in your genital area. You need to examine, move things around, get a good look make sure that you don’t see something new or something changing or different.”
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