WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: If these images don't make you stop SUNBATHING OR TANNING, I guarantee you, NOTHING WILL

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WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: If these images  don't make you stop SUNBATHING OR TANNING, I guarantee you, NOTHING WILL
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Bethany Gambardella-Greenway (39) enjoyed sunbathing, like everyone else. But, one day she noticed a dark spot on her forhead. At first she thought it was a pimple, so she wasn't worried at all.

Because she was pregnant at that time, she assumed that dark spot was caused by hormonal changes. When she visited dermatologist, hi told her it was just a liver spot.

After a year she gave birth to her daughter, she found out that she had skin cancer.

 

That black mole was actualy desmoplastic melanoma, aggresive type of melanoma.

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First, doctors had to remove it and a large surrounding piece of skind, and after that gave her a skin graft.

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Bethany lost her lef eyebrow, and also some underlying muscle in the area.

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At first she tought that she is healthy now, but she found out some more bad news. Doctors told her that the cancer spread to her bones and lympf nodes. Bethany started immunotherapy in 2016.

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“The radiation was absolutely the worst part. It was hell plain and simple. It fried the inside of my mouth. My throat was so sore. My skin was covered in sores, I lost my ability to taste food, my voice was hoarse, at about week three my hair began to fall out on the treated area. By the time I was done with treatment I had lost about forty pounds because eating had become such a miserable chore."

Bethany is now done with the treatment, and now she is sharing her journey with others to warn them of danger of sun and tanning beds.

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“Please stop sun bathing and going to tanning salons,” she said. “A tan isn’t a healthy glow — it’s damaged skin.”

 

 

 

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