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Community Health Outreach and Education
Skin Cancer
We all need to learn how to be safe in the sun.
Lower Your Risk
Everyone is at risk for skin cancer, but it can be prevented.
Warning Signs
The most important warning sign of melanoma is a new spot on the skin or a spot that changes in size, shape or color. Remember the ABCDE rule:
- Asymmetry: one half of the mole or birthmark does not match the other.
- Border: edges are irregular, ragged, notched or blurred.
- Color: color is not the same all over; may include different shades of brown or black sometimes with patches of pink, red, white or blue.
- Diameter: spot larger than 6 millimeters (about ¼ inch)
- Evolving: mole changes in size, shape or color.
Also look for:
- A sore that doesn’t heal.
- Spread of pigment from the border of a spot into surrounding skin.
- Redness or new swelling beyond the border of the mole.
- Itchiness, tenderness or pain.
- Scaliness, oozing, bleeding or the appearance of a lump or bump.
- Show your doctor any mole that you are unsure of.
Screening for Life and Health Care Connection
Don’t let lack of insurance or copays keep you from getting screened!
Screening for Life and the Health Care Connection Screening for Life provides payment for cancer screening tests recommended by your doctor if you meet age, income and insurance guidelines. This program is a cooperative effort of the Delaware Division of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Health Care Connection simplifies the eligibility screening process to help uninsured Delawareans access primary care and medical specialists, disease prevention services — such as cancer screenings — and helps ensure access to prescription programs, laboratory and radiology services.
To learn more, call 302-623-4661 or visit Screening For Life or the Health Care Connection & Voluntary Initiative Program.
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Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute
4701 Ogletown-Stanton Road,
Newark, DE 19713
