kinda silly article spends all it’s picture space( 4 if i counted coorrect on my skim through the article at link) on pictures of this woman and NONE on showing what that melanoma can look like to maybe help educate viewers/readers.
Most melanoma are black or mostly black and generally not perfectly round. A rare few are white or non-pigmented. They are very difficult to find in time.
We think of some cancers as being benign for a while, then malignant and then after a while actively metastasizing and spreading. Melanoma does NOT work that way.
It is malignant from its first cell according to my dermatologist.
That is why ignoring it while small is so problematic.