Speaker 1: It's the Pickup Thursday afternoon with britt Laura mitch Here
Speaker 1: heading the Chemists Warehouse today. Great savings every day.
Speaker 2: Guys. I want to talk to you about something a
Speaker 2: bit more serious today, but it's very important, so bear
Speaker 2: with me. Over the next week, you are going to
Speaker 2: witness something on my face that is going to be
Speaker 2: quite disturbing. So I went and got a skin check
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, probably two weeks ago, now
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. I had three spots on my face
Speaker 2: that I was a bit worried about, and I've been
Speaker 2: really lazy with it, really putting it off. But I
Speaker 2: thought enough's enough. I saw a young person in Australia
Speaker 2: just on the news, I saw them pass away from melanoma,
Speaker 2: and that's what scared me enough to say I'm going
Speaker 2: to do it now. I'm glad I did because the
Speaker 2: three spots that I have was worried about turns out
Speaker 2: to be something called solar keratosis, which isn't exactly rare,
Speaker 2: it can be quite common. It is not yet cancer,
Speaker 2: but it turns into cancer, so it's it's called pre cancer.
Speaker 3: And looking at your skin, okay, your skin looks pretty perfect.
Speaker 3: To me, you would never have looked at your face
Speaker 3: and thought, oh, that's something checked out.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the worrying thing. I will say. I
Speaker 2: have really great skin. I've never had to suffer with
Speaker 2: bad skin. It's always been really great. It looks on
Speaker 2: the outside like it's great quality. But this is the
Speaker 2: thing that doesn't mean anything. So I've got these three
Speaker 2: spots that are pre cancerous. If left, will turn into
Speaker 2: skin care. So we'll turn into something called SCC, which
Speaker 2: is squamous cell carcinoma, which is a nasty skin care.
Speaker 1: So what's the treatment? They cut them out? What do
Speaker 1: you do from here?
Speaker 2: No? So the treatment is you have to order a
Speaker 2: cytotoxic cream. I had to order it from another state.
Speaker 2: Now you cannot touch this cream without gloves. It cannot
Speaker 2: touch anything. Anything it touches. You have to double bag
Speaker 2: in a plastic bag. You can't even put it in
Speaker 2: the rubbish bin. You have to take it to a
Speaker 2: chemist to disclose of it. It's cytotoxic.
Speaker 3: You've got to put it on your face.
Speaker 2: So I have to put it on my entire face
Speaker 2: so you can't tell. Now I'm three days in. I've
Speaker 2: been using it for three days but it takes about
Speaker 2: three weeks and in a couple of days it's going
Speaker 2: to kick in. But what it's going to do to
Speaker 2: my face is essentially it kills all the skin, kills
Speaker 2: everything around. It stops the bad skin cancer cells from duplicating,
Speaker 2: which is very important. But I will my face could
Speaker 2: potentially turn into one giant, huge, red, weeping scabs.
Speaker 3: We're going to be off the cameras when that, I mean,
Speaker 3: like looking at your skin now, I know I say,
Speaker 3: I would never look at your skin and think that
Speaker 3: there was something wrong with it. But it's not like
Speaker 3: you have moles, you know. I think traditionally you think, oh,
Speaker 3: skin cancer, it's from a rogue mole that's changed color
Speaker 3: and size. No, I don't have any moles in your face.
Speaker 2: Nope, I have three. You know what it was? I
Speaker 2: have three areas that when a little bit darker, they
Speaker 2: were almost like a freckly area. They went a little
Speaker 2: bit darker and a little bit drier, so that I
Speaker 2: had quite dry skin. But these parts were particularly dry
Speaker 2: and nothing would get rid of it. I would go
Speaker 2: and get the deepest, most hydrating lotions. I would get
Speaker 2: lasers on my face for like regeneration. Nothing would touch
Speaker 2: these three spots. And that's when I thought, something doesn't
Speaker 2: seem right.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: I haven't had a skin check in i'd say five years.
Speaker 1: It's been five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy to me.
Speaker 3: I feel ashamed to say this. I've not been had
Speaker 3: a skin check in ten years, in a decade. I
Speaker 3: was twenty seven the last time I got it checked
Speaker 3: because I remember who I was dating at the time.
Speaker 2: This is really scary. So Australia has the most the
Speaker 2: high rated skin cancer in the world. One in fourteen
Speaker 2: men and one in twenty five women will have melanoma
Speaker 2: in their lifetime. Now that is scary. One in fourteen men,
Speaker 2: one in twenty five women, and it's the third most
Speaker 2: common yeah type of cancer in Australia.
Speaker 3: I wonder if men are more predisposed because traditionally men
Speaker 3: have more outside jobs, you know, they're like a laborers,
Speaker 3: or maybe they're exposed to the sun a bit more.
Speaker 3: But I genuinely do I feel embarrassed to say ten
Speaker 3: years it's been.
Speaker 1: I have spots as well, guys, that I mean, I'm freckly,
Speaker 1: I've got actual spots that I am worried about, and
Speaker 1: I've just put it off because you think the mentality
Speaker 1: is it's not gonna happen to me. They'll cut it
Speaker 1: out if I need to.
Speaker 2: Have gone, because this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Okay. One of the reasons why I haven't gone is
Speaker 3: because because I think when you feel healthy, when you
Speaker 3: think you're healthy and you can't like nothing. I haven't
Speaker 3: never seen a spot that's changed. I've never had anything
Speaker 3: that I feel overly worried about, and so when you're busy,
Speaker 3: it's just one of those back in mind things.
Speaker 2: You go, I'll go next year, not a prior.
Speaker 3: I'll make another booking. I think I made a booking
Speaker 3: once and then I had to cancel it. Just never rebooked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I made a booking once and she's like, you
Speaker 1: do realize you have to get naked, and I just
Speaker 1: ghosted her. Didn't turn up all right? Everyone, Well, brit
Speaker 1: we're glad you're okay. All right, next on the show,
Speaker 1: and we've all had few through our neighbors. You will
Speaker 1: never believe how bad this feud between two neighbors in
Speaker 1: the UK is gotten. I'll tell you all about it
Speaker 1: next on the pickup