53 yearold American has never used sunscreen! this is what her skin looks like
Don’t repeat her mistakes!
A mother of many children from Canada, Honor Stark, is now 53 years old. She has never used SPF in her life. And this led to the emergence of basal cell carcinoma — a type of malignant tumor.
“I look like the victim of an acid attack,” is how Honor Stark describes her skin in an interview with the SWNS news agency. The woman is forced to apply a special ointment to her face and body for six hours every day.
One of the side effects is itchy skin, which Stark says feels like «red stinging ants» are running all over the body. Honor’s first symptoms of the disease appeared in 2008 —
a mother of many children noticed a dimple on her forehead with scales and the size of a coin. Stark went to the doctor a few months later, when the dent was much closer to the frontal bone.
“I went to the doctor’s office, I was very nervous and did not know anything about skin cancer. She immediately looked at my forehead and said: “You have cancer,” the woman recalls the unfortunate day.
In 2010, Stark underwent surgery, but it did not solve the problem: the cancer had metastasized all over the skin. To date, the Canadian woman has had 30 surgeries.
“I have had so many medical interventions over the years that I have lost count of them,” she adds. The woman is now sure that the main reason for the occurrence of basal cell carcinoma is the rejection of sunscreen.
«I put sunscreen on my kids, but I didn’t use it myself,» Stark explains. “I didn’t wear a hat and didn’t stand under an umbrella, which is why I have so many cancer cells.”
A special cream that acts as a poison for a malignant tumor was prescribed to a woman in 2012. Since then, she has been suffering from itchy skin. But you can’t get anywhere — this is the price for the disease not to progress.
Now a resident of Toronto is active in social networks. “It is important for me to spread the word about the disease and prevention because you can protect yourself and your children from this type of cancer at any time,” says Stark.
