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These are the skin cancer warning signs you may overlook as you age

Rebecca Nash
Reporter · Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM · 1 min read
These are the skin cancer warning signs you may overlook as you age  — Brookhaven Health news

(Aging Untold) — Skin cancer can appear in more ways than a changing mole. Warning signs people may overlook Some of the warning signs that people might overlook are having sores that don’t heal or moles that bleed easily, Dr. Rhea Rogers, a board-certified physician, said. Moles can change and that is somethig people don’t always track, Rogers said, and shared what doctors look for. “We look at the asymmetry, how symmetric is it? Is it the border of it? Does it change? The color, the color can change. The diameter, and then evolving. Is it changing in its appearance to you?” Rogers said. Changes matter even for spots people have had for years, gerontologist “Sam” Cradduck added. “A millimeter can matter a lot,” Cradduck said. She said people should track whether a mole has grown, changed its symmetry or started to bleed. Where skin cancer can hide While people often are told to check sun-exposed areas, Rogers said skin cancer can show up elsewhere. “You have to look everywhere because

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