Why melanoma is so deadly for men, and why it doesn’t have to be
Source: The Washington Post , April 2023
As his patient sat on the examining table, dermatologist Jeremy Brauer explained the pathology report, letting him know that the lesion on his chest was skin cancer and that minor surgery would be required to remove it.
“I’d like to try to get this done before the weather gets nice,” the patient, himself a physician, told Brauer, “so I can get back out into the sun.”
Brauer, a clinical associate professor of dermatology at NYU Langone Health, says he was stunned.