Hey Griff you ever heard of this?

[foxtrapper]

http://www.gadailynews.com/health/11050 ... indow.html

[AJMD429]

In the pre-air-conditioning (for automobiles) days it wasn't unusual to see more basal and squamous cell skin cancers on the left arm, (and lower left face, maybe). Melanomas are more controversial as far as to whether or not they are 'sun-associated' (thankfully, since they are the very deadly ones), and they occur more often in the less-sun-exposed areas of the body (the chart below shows sites of several hundred melanomas - note many of the high-risk areas are not particularly sun-prone; check yourself/spouse regularly..!).

[Griff]

Yes; and since I already have skin cancer, I practice civil disobedience. Some states allow tinted windows in trucks if they block less than 30% of light. The federal statutes just say you can't obstruct the windows.

I've been ticketed several times. Numerous "warnings". Some judges allow medical condittions as a waiver, other personality types say, "pay the baliff."

[mikld]

Growing up driving in Southern CA, it wasn't cool to roll up the window, no matter what the weather, and I got in the habit of driving with my left arm out the window. 50 years later I'm being treated for cancers and pre-cancerous splotches on my left arm...

[M. M. Wright]

I've had several basal cell things on the tops of both ears but the melanoma I had removed was in my right side-burn and back into the ear. Probably not sun related. They got it all and no problems in the 5 or so years since.

[earlmck]

Interesting diagram the Doc shows us on the melanoma. Yeah, my basal and squamous stuff has all been around ears and face. My one melanoma was right out of that "hot spot" shown there in the center of the back. I'd always wondered if that was one of those "false positives" because it seemed such an unlikely position. But maybe not!

[AJMD429]

Interesting diagram the Doc shows us on the melanoma. Yeah, my basal and squamous stuff has all been around ears and face. My one melanoma was right out of that "hot spot" shown there in the center of the back. I'd always wondered if that was one of those "false positives" because it seemed such an unlikely position. But maybe not!

I've removed three or four from women that were on areas a G-string would cover. One had seen her gynecologist for a "physical" (really just a Pap smear) only a couple weeks before, and she evidently didn't think it was important (where it was, she HAD to have seen it!).