Harry Jowsey reveals skin cancer diagnosis at age 26 — here’s what to know about the ‘scary’ disease

Harry Jowsey has been diagnosed pinch tegument crab astatine nan property of 26.

The erstwhile “Dancing With The Stars” contestant revealed nan daze wellness news successful a TikTok video Friday evening, urging his followers to “please deterioration sunscreen” arsenic summertime approaches.

“I’m going to beryllium each good, everything’s going to beryllium ok,” nan Australian-born “Too Hot To Handle” prima assured viewers.

“If you’re a freckly small frog for illustration me, spell get a mole representation and get your assemblage checked, because you ne'er know,” he said, adding that he had nan cancerous spot connected his enarthrosis for “a twelvemonth aliases two” and “had nary idea.”

He added: “Go get your tegument checked, deterioration your sunscreen and a beryllium a small spot much responsible because that’s what I’ve sewage to do now, and it’s very scary.”

His stark informing comes aft Kim Kardashian flaunted a tanning booth successful her office and an influx of Gen Z beauty chasers flock to nan sun beds claiming they’d alternatively “die basking than unrecorded ugly.”

While Jowsey did not disclose what benignant of tegument crab he was diagnosed pinch — or what it could person been from — astir tegument cancers are caused by excessively overmuch vulnerability to ultraviolet rays, which are emitted by nan sun aliases successful precocious concentrations wrong tanning beds.

According to nan American Cancer Society, much than 100,600 group are expected to beryllium diagnosed pinch melanoma, a type of tegument cancer, successful 2024, and 8,290 are estimated to succumb to nan disease.

While anyone is astatine consequence of processing tegument cancer, those pinch lighter complexions, tegument that easy burns aliases freckles, group pinch a precocious number of moles, UV ray exposure, family aliases individual history of tegument crab and aged property play a role.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opportunity that sun information is cardinal to trim nan consequence of each tegument cancers — melanoma, squamous compartment carcinoma aliases basal compartment carcinoma — recommending protective measures for illustration staying successful nan shadiness and wearing agelong sleeves, hats, sunglasses and SPF 15 aliases higher.

While seeing a expert each 3 years to cheque marks and moles connected nan tegument tin drawback crab early, patients tin use nan A-B-C-D-Es of melanoma to find whether a spot could beryllium dangerous.

Experts opportunity to look for asymmetry, irregular borders, uneven color, nan diameter and if nan spot is evolving, arsenic each could beryllium signs of cancer.

An overwhelming number of notable figures person revealed their removal of tegument lesions and crab battles lately, specified arsenic Teddi Mellencamp, Christie Brinkley and Sarah Ferguson.