Nassau screening shows urgency of skin cancer tests
Three Nassau employees participating in a melanoma awareness campaign Thursday were referred to their doctors for possible skin cancer, county officials said.
The three were among 42 employees screened by doctors in the fifth-floor county legislature room in Mineola before a noon news conference on melanoma awareness led by Legislators Diane Yatauro (D-Glen Cove) and Norma Gonsalves (R-East Meadow).
“By increasing awareness, it is my hope that everyone will get themselves checked by a dermatologist before it’s too late,” said Yatauro, who sponsored a similar day last year that found one worker had skin cancer.
The awareness campaign in Nassau is led by New Hyde Park’s Colette Coyne, whose 30-year-old daughter of the same name died in 1998 within three months of being diagnosed with skin cancer. Garden City dermatologist Dr. Ted Daly, one of Thursday’s examiners, said one in five Americans and one in three Caucasians will develop skin cancer.
“And while it is uncommon in African Americans, Latinos and Asians, it is most deadly for them because it is more likely to develop undetected.”
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