A Dublin woman is trying to raise awareness for skin cancer by sharing the side effects of her treatment.
Mags Murphy, from Dublin, discovered that she had pre-cancerous cells and proceeded to start treatment to remove them. In doing so she needs to apply cream to her face that will burn off the cells and hopefully clear the cancer.
Before starting her treatment she told people about her story on Facebook and has decided to post photos each day as the treatment progresses to show the side effects and raise awareness.
In her first post she said:
“Guess if your reading this you’ll know me, you’ll know how much I love sunshine you’ll know I’ve spent over a decade living in Crete tanning myself to “look good”” thinking hey I’m brown I don’t need high sun factor,(what a dick)
I’ve spent summers doing sunbeds just for a tan in the shitty Irish weather and a childhood running the streets all day with not a thought for sunfactor.
Unfortunately all this lovely tanning has a price to pay cause now I have PRE cancerous cells on my face and have started treatment to remove them, I’ve to use a cream that’s going to burn them out,apparently it’s quite painful and gruesome as the weeks go on but on the good side it should get rid of the cells and treatment and is only for a month .
I’m sharing this to try and raise awareness to sun damage and using high factor sunlotion. I heard all the warnings years ago and closed my eyes and ears to it all maybe someone will open their eyes to this if it’s closer to home.”
She’s posting updates online each day and is currently on day 17 of the treatment.
Here is her progress so far:
