Is Skin Cancer that serious?

Skin cancer is a very serious matter. I had little knowledge of it until I bumped into a contact of mine who looked completely distraught.

When I asked Francesca* if she was okay because she looked very troubled she went on to describe how things were particularly difficult for her these days because a friend of the family (Rosamond*) got a final diagnostic from doctors.

Rosamond’s doctor sent her home and told her she was dying of skin cancer and there was nothing they could do to treat her because the condition was extremely advanced.

Six weeks later, I bumped into Francesca again and before I had summoned the courage to ask her about her friend Rosamond she told that she had passed away three weeks after I had seen her. I was chocked beyond belief. Truth be told, Rosamond was in her fifties and had a voracious appetite for sun bathing for several decades, but three weeks seemed surreal. It’s almost as fast as blinking. I had no clue skin cancer carried such a radical death sentence.

Rosamond lived only three very short weeks after receiving her final diagnostic. Skin cancer is very serious and you should not take it lightly – regardless of your ethnic background.

*Out of respect, I’ve given fictitious names to the people in the story above.