Let’s talk about melanoma and sun exposure! 1.) Most melanomas (~80%) are present on areas rarely or intermittently exposed to sunlight. 2.) Meta-analyses linking sun exposure to melanoma find that chronic sun exposure is not related to the risk of melanoma, but intermittent exposure and sunburning are. Weird, right? Why would these observations exist if sun exposure caused melanoma? Maybe it’s more complicated than most make it seem… We evolved under chronic sun exposure, so

There are many misconceptions about the relationship between sun exposure and melanoma, with the conventional viewpoint being that sun expos

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The last few weeks have been mentally taxing for me. I’ve felt broken in every possible way. The details are deep as fuck and I won’t go there yet... ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 𝐒𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲, 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐱𝐲𝐠𝐞𝐧. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭; 𝐈 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ Being immobile is the most soul crushing, depression initiating thing that can happen in my world. Everyone else works out to have a hot bod — then th

I dropped off the map with my cancer updates.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Before I dig in I will give you a little background on why I hesitate to share every detail… ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ First of all I dislike when people complain about things they most likely fed into. Hai friends, I know my diagnosis wasn’t a 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Of course I didn’t plan for any of this to happen, but I for damn sure played my part here. I chose to marry a damaged soul and pr

Everyone seems to have the cure for cancer Alternative treatments are fantastic if they are used in conjunction with proven treatments and I am most definitely applying several to my entire treatment plan. But the likelihood of your favorite method curing cancer is small. Cancer is heterogeneous and you cannot treat all cancers the same. So there will never be one thing that works for everyone. There is no cure all. All of the advice comes from a good place regardless and I d