Feel free to skip forward a bit if you’d like to get right to the meat and potatoes, but I feel compelled to share with you a quick anecdote before I get there myself. This is one I’ve shared before, after Robin Ventura had a brief skin cancer scare a couple years back, so forgive me if I’m recycling things too quickly for your taste.
This was maybe 12 or so years ago and my wife had noticed that a mole on my back looked a little funky, so I scheduled an appointment with a dermatologist. Sure enough, it turned out that I had some potentially bad stuff in there; I think it was just stage 0, but not something to leave unchecked.