Doctor shares five signs and symptoms of skin cancer after Sarah Ferguson diagnosed with malignant melanoma

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00:00 Ideally what you're looking for in a new mole or an existing mole is a for asymmetry

00:05 Is it symmetrical or is it not?

00:07 You're looking for the border is the border regular or irregular if it's irregular

00:13 That's more suspicious if there's color discrepancy within the mold so some areas are darker than others

00:19 That's suspicious the diameter if it's bigger than the blunt end of a pencil six millimeters or so that's more suspicious

00:25 And then you've got

00:29 Changing it's growing it's irritating itching or it's bleeding

00:32 So those are the things that are suspicious

00:35 Okay, if you've got anything like that get get your partner to look at your back or take a photograph of your back

00:41 Or your front so you see any change over the course of time see your GP for GP's worried

00:46 He'll refer you along the fast pathway to a dermatologist for that biopsy