Dr. Rosemary Coleman

I don't know what they mean by an age spot.

Are they talking about sun damage where you get blotchy brown, what people call liver spots on the face, on hands typically?

Are they talking about the crusty seborrheic keratoses, which we call aging warts, which are totally harmless with no malignant potential?

In fact, they're so common that in Australia, the incidence of melanoma did not go down in elderly men because they had so many seborrheic keratoses.

that the melanoma got lost within them on the back.

It can be under one.

Yes, the so-called liver spots, that's sun damage.

You cannot get those without sun exposure.

You will not see those on non-sun exposed skin.

You won't see them on your buttock or under the arm or on the breast unless you're exposing those areas.

We forget about the backs of the hands, don't we?

But you can get melanoma in all of those areas.

The backs of the hands are very important, particularly for people who are driving a lot.

Golfers regularly who wear gloves on one hand, they wear gloves on one hand.

The other hand is always more sun exposed with more sun damage.

In the car, you can get those little fingerless gloves very cheaply on Amazon, 12, 13 euro.

And they're fingerless and they're flesh-coloured so nobody sees you wearing them.

They don't look like Karl Lagerfeld or Madonna in the car.

And they're clear.

And if you're going on long-distance journeys or if you're a mum in the car all day, every day, throw them on when you get in the car.