Mom shares graphic selfie
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05/14/2015
Mom who had skin cancer shares graphic selfie
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Kentucky-born Tawny Willoughby used a tanning bed four to five times a week in high school. At age 27, she’s now had basal cell carcinoma five times, and squamous cell carcinoma once. -
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Now a wife and mother of a two-year-old son, Willoughby posted a graphic photo of her skin cancer treatment to Facebook as an awareness tool. -
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“If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go!” she writes. “This is what skin cancer treatment can look like.” -
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Tawny Willoughby after using a skin cancer treatment cream called Aldara to clear away her damage. -
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Willoughby was first diagnosed with skin cancer at age 21, and now goes to the dermatologist every six to 12 months The painful picture, showing bright red scabs and bloodied blisters, has been shared more than 50,000 times as a stunning warning about the dangers of skin cancer. -
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“Melanoma kills, non-melanoma disfigures,” she writes, although her skin seems to be healing and improving again with time. -
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A whopping number of people still use tanning beds (about one in three U.S. adults say they’ve used one before -
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The American Academy of Dermatology estimates there will be 3.5 million new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer diagnosed in two million people in the United States in 2015, and an additional 137,310 new cases of melanoma.
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Kentucky-born Tawny Willoughby used a tanning bed four to five times a week in high school. At age 27, she’s now had basal cell carcinoma five times, and squamous cell carcinoma once.
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