16 Year Old Me

Karl Fisch's post about Dear Sixteen Year Old Me by DCMFCanada gave many helpful tips. This video is about Melanoma cancer. Cancer is very common among people today whether it be inside you body, hiding but spreading everywhere like a fire spreading in a forest or outside of your body. Melanoma cancer is caused from excessive sun without sunscreen or from tanning beds. This video showed people who have experienced this or had close ones who have experienced this and maybe it was even fatal. That's why they made this video to show people to be aware of this cancer and to stop it before it's to late.

After seeing this video, it made me aware of how easy it is to get cancer. Melanoma is a tumor that attacks melanin, which gives you your skin and hair color. Even just going to the pool without sunscreen and even getting just one bad sunburn can double the chances of getting this. This is very important to me because this is the second most found cancer in kids and teenagers. Many people my age aren't even aware of this cancer and really need to be educated about this. I never knew this before, but now I can help others who could eventually get this be aware and to stop this cancer before it gets bad. It is so crucial that people are aware because Melanoma is only treatable at the early stage when the tumor can be surgically removed. If people don't know that they have it, Melanoma can spread very fast to parts of the body where it can't be removed making it harder to treat. One of the quotes a lady said in this video that I liked was, "your skin is like an elephant; it remembers everything." This proves that in general; be nice to skin because it will show if people don't. People are so oblivious to this because everyone wants to be tan therefore they don't put on sunscreen. Signs of this cancer are usually shown throw skin and so if should be noticeable but sometimes it can be hard to fin so that can make people more oblivious. The people who were in this video gave tips to wear sunscreen and check every month to see if there are any signs of Melanoma. "Dear Sixteen Year Old Me" made me appreciate all the people in the video who were calm and gave great advise. It helps to see that there is hope even if people do have it. There are many varieties of cancer in the world and this is one step closer to finding cures for even a bad sunburn or a person who has gone to the tanning bed.