Hispanics and Africans and all other people with dark skin color should be aware of skin cancer, especially if they have come here recently and spent most of their lives in hot sunny countries. - - Donna Poisl
by Harry Jackson Jr.
Mary Clemons' bout with skin cancer has a happy ending. In fact, she didn't have much trouble with it at all.
But she realized the message: "Skin cancer, I never thought it would be skin cancer," said Clemons, 83. "I don't know one black person with skin cancer."
She wants others to know that while skin cancer among black people is rare, it's not unheard of.
Dr. Scott Fosko, chairman of the department of dermatology at St. Louis University School of Medicine, said that people of color actually have a higher death rate from melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
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