Dr. Mitchell Elliott Bender
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Yeah, let me just say, Barry is absolutely right.
And let me just second what he said, because the eye is an amazing camera.
It's able to pick up changes on skin spots.
Non-dermatologists might not know what it means.
But they can tell if something looks new or different or is changing.
It's our job to figure out what it is, if it's something that you don't have to worry about or it's something important that needs to be evaluated.
So, you know, we can't look at our own backs.
So I think the same way we tell people to do tick checks, for example, if they're walking in grass looking for deer ticks that bring on Lyme disease, have your partner look at your back or your scalp.
All they have to do is say, this is something that is new.
And it may be something new harmless or something new that's
more concerning, and going to get it checked.
Yeah, Clarence, let me second that because you can't believe the number of referrals we get in from stylists and barbers with cancers behind the ear or on the scalp.
And we see a significant amount of cancer that, for whatever reason, the patient didn't see and was picked up either by a friend, partner, spouse, or a stylist.