Introduction - The chance of being afflicted with skin cancer is, unfortunately, a significant danger these days. In fact, approximately 4,300,000 Americans will come down with basal cell carcinoma (the most common type of skin cancer) each year and an additional 1,000,000 people will come down with squamous cell carcinoma (the second most common type). In total, about 18,000 people will die from...
"Carcinoma." - All the other words the doctor said before this paled. It was this last word that mattered. We thought it was just a lesion. After all, our son (Aaron) was 15. Yeah, some kids develop cancer, but not ours. That happens to other people. The next 3 months were a blur. Phone calls. Emails. Appointments. Exams. Scans and blood work. Surgery. And, because of where we live, all of this was 2...