Dr. Mitchell Elliott Bender

So when the redhead comes in, we really want to look them over carefully, and we really want to emphasize to them how important it is for them to practice sun protection.

Another thing, another example, people of color, it's true that people of color have more pigment, and they do have lower rates of

skin cancer, but they still get skin cancer.

And interestingly enough, they get skin cancer on non-sun exposed skin, palms, soles, and in the mouth.

Bob Marley died of a melanoma under his toenail

And everyone thought it was a bruise, but it was a melanoma.

And by the time it was diagnosed, it had already spread and eventually killed him.

So if a person of color comes in, we want to make sure that we look at their...

hands, feet, between the toes, bottom of their feet, inside their mouth and groin area, because they're prone towards melanoma, even though those areas are not getting sun exposure.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah, we have to, you know, kind of tailor our skin exam and focus on the patient before us.

Yeah.

Well, the answer to everything you said is yes.

A certain amount of wrinkling is normal.

We are getting just from muscle movement.

So for example, lines coming, the line between the cheek and the upper lip is going to deepen, maybe lines coming from the corners of the mouth, maybe emanating from between the eyebrows.

That's from muscle movement and also our face changes.

We lose...

subcutaneous fat, fat under the layer of the skin.