This mom of two is on a mission to warn people about the realities of skin cancer with a shocking photo diary documenting her battle with melanoma.






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This mom of two is on a mission to warn people about the realities of skin cancer

Her shocking photo diary documents her battle with melanoma

Bethany Gambardella-Greenway discovered a dark spot on her skin while pregnant with her youngest child

She ignored it in the belief that it was something to do with hormonal changes

When she finally got it checked out, the dermatologist reassured her that it was just a liver spot

18 months later however, a painful mole appeared

A biopsy revealed that it was in fact an aggressive form of skin cancer called desmoplastic melanoma

Doctors removed the mole, but after learning that the cancer had spread, she started immunotherapy

“The radiation was absolutely the worst part. It was hell plain and simple,” she said

“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”

“It fried the inside of my mouth. My throat was so sore”

“By the time I was done with treatment I had lost about forty pounds”

Bethany has finished her treatment and is now in the all-clear

“Please stop sun bathing and going to tanning salons,” she says

Why post the issues that melanin-deficient women face? What does this have to do with Africans

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Kudos to the medics that made this disappear

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