I don't have a huge social circle. Most of my friends have never met. Their only link is me.
I know that three of them have all experienced skin cancer.
Three friends. Three cancers. In the same small group. I'm not a statistician but guess this is probably to be expected.
A few years ago, the first friend casually remarked with a degree of bravado that some years previously he'd had cancer. I was shocked. He pointed to his nose and told me the cancer had been 'chopped out' with no further problems. When invited to inspect the damage I couldn't see anything at all.
I had a similar conversation with the second friend a few years later. Again, no further problems or scars to observe.
The third friend informed me of her diagnosis soon after she received it. In no time at all the cancer had gone and all evidence of surgery to her neck seemed to vanish within weeks.
And they all told me exactly the same thing.
"It's only skin cancer".
