Katherine Ryan has tried to clarify any misunderstanding around the news of her diagnosis of skin cancer.
On Friday (March 21), the 41 -year -old Canadian comedian revealed in his podcast Tell everyone They took a lunar from his arm. The results of the tests again showing that he had early melanoma, which is a type of skin cancer.
Ryan explained that he originally spent £ 300 in a seven -minute consultation in which the doctor incorrectly told him that the mole was not cancerous. Finally, he paid £ 1,000 to eliminate it in a private clinic in southern Kensington.
Hours after the podcast was launched, Ryan shared a video on Instagram, telling his followers that his diagnosis “was not a battle.”
“The melanoma of my podcast was collected [by the media] With additional comments such as 'Take a blow to NHS', “he began.
“Everything is fine, it's not a big problem, so don't stress.”
She continued: “And one more thing is not a battle. There is no battle. The battle is made. They took a mole. The melanoma returned, very early, it's fine.”
The comedian said that, despite the fact that two doctors in private practices told her that the mole on her arm was not cancerous, she knew that “it was not well” since she was previously diagnosed with melanoma in stage two in her leg in 2004, when she was 21 years old.
“I know a lot about melanoma. I had a melanoma like a very young woman, in stage two in my leg, and I talked about it before,” he said in his podcast.
In another video shared on Tiktok, Ryan shared photos of his cancerous moon, which was small, raised and red.
He added that the mole did not seem a typical example of melanoma, but it was “high” and “constantly changing.”
Ryan accredited Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Star Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave for talking about her recent diagnosis of melanoma and inspiring her to examine the mole.
“I am a really pale person and I have many moles. And when the things of Teddi Mellencamp came out, I thought: 'I don't like this lunar.'”
With that in mind, Ryan implored his followers to trust his instinct about his health concerns.
“Just check it and get a second opinion. And don't be happy with 'No, it's not what you think it's goodbye!' Because honestly, if I had taken that advice, I could have been dead in a few years, so is how serious melanoma is. “
She said in her podcast: “It seems crazy to me, as what could have happened if it had not been my own defender, and I will continue to be my own defender,” he said.
“If I had not pressed, if I had taken that good answer the first time and left, then I would have made melanoma simply grow and spread in my arm. And I would say: 'Oh, no, the doctor says that it is fine, that's fine', and God knows how far that would have come.”
An overwhelming 77 percent of people would not recognize signs of a melanoma, a malignant tumor of skin cancer, despite the fact that most British care about skin cancer, a study of 2023 by the British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) found.
There are two types of skin cancer; Melanoma, the most fatal way of which around 13,000 new cases is diagnosed every year in the United Kingdom, and not melanoma, of which there are more than 100,000 new cases diagnosed every year.
The risk of melanoma is doubled if a person has had five or more solar burns at any age, according to Skin Care Foundation. But only a solar burn in childhood or adolescence duplicates more than the possibilities of a person to develop melanoma later in life.
Non -melanoma comes in two more common forms: basal cell carcinoma, which represents approximately 75 percent of skin cancers and squamous cell carcinoma, which represents approximately 20 percent. It is mainly caused by overexposure to UV light.
