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I was in hawaii for 6 months or so and got an open sore on arm n february 2016. I froze as I wasn’t educated on skin other than the fact that I wore a tremendous amount of sunscreen. I live in Chicago fulltime and enjoy the sun a bit there as well. I went to my primary for a physical 2 months after the open sore on bicep. He is not a doctor that mentioned skin so I wasn’t educated on it as my parents have never had any issues. I have had 3 skin checks since February and they only biopsied 2 mildly atypical moles and I had to force them to biopsy the lesion onnleft atm that was open and changed and raised over the 3 years. It came back a mole with congenritsl features. I then went to two other derms and finally got to a surgeon who excised the whole soot amd that came back benign as well.

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