^^ I wasn't outing you. That is a photo of a mod. (I have no idea if that is you in the photo though).

As a victim i doubt that any Cambodian doctor would be capable of identifying and treating skin cancers. I have had many removed and luckily only one was malignant. Just finished four weeks of radio therapy, treated very day for the one malignant one.
So many victims in Australia but luckily we have the facilities for treatment unlike Cambodia and probably Thailand.

willyhilly wrote:As a victim i doubt that any Cambodian doctor would be capable of identifying and treating skin cancers. I have had many removed and luckily only one was malignant. Just finished four weeks of radio therapy, treated very day for the one malignant one.
So many victims in Australia but luckily we have the facilities for treatment unlike Cambodia and probably Thailand.

Thailand has world class medical facilities - every bit as good (but much cheaper than) as Australia. Cambodia... not so much.

willyhilly wrote:As a victim i doubt that any Cambodian doctor would be capable of identifying and treating skin cancers. I have had many removed and luckily only one was malignant. Just finished four weeks of radio therapy, treated very day for the one malignant one.
So many victims in Australia but luckily we have the facilities for treatment unlike Cambodia and probably Thailand.

At last! Thank you willyhilly for your reply.

What about expat doctors at such places as Naga Clinic, etc.?

Hi-

Thought I'd register...read this forum a bit and upon reading this thought I'd better register just to reply-

Firstly, what kind of skin cancer; do you think melanoma or is it a BSC or similar (itchy/ scratchy type)? Feel free to put an image up and I can give you advice on what it MIGHT be.

My story -- my Dad had melanoma in 1974 so there is family predisposition. Melanoma, once it reaches a certain stage is fatal.

I was in Brisbane in 2010...having a big dispute with my then manager so figured I'd book in a couple of sickie-days-with-certs right B4 Xmas (busiest days of year) just to piss said manager off. Been meaning to get a couple of moles checked and procrastinating, etc etc. GP offered to "...burn 'em off with nitrogen there and then..." I declined and asked for a referral to dermatologist.

Dermatologist about January 2011 mapped then carefully excised them with a lance under local, sent them to QML for histo-pathology/ diagnostics and told me he'd get back to me.

Two nights later at 8:30 PM he called me on landline at home told me I'd better get my ass in double quick...one of the moles, in fact the smallest and most innocuous looking WAS positive. Category two. No kidding the mole wasn't even black, it was a very light brown and the size of a head of a pin. Only giveaway was it looked a tiny bit "spidery" when he showed me the image but the two really blue-black ones I had concerns about about were negative.

Surgery done under local...I'm way too much of a tight-ass to get an anesthetist...took a piece of flesh and muscle off the top of my right shoulder about five inches long and an inch deep. Left an impressive scar...

Five years on I'm still here, all good and subsequent check-ups fine. Didn't even make it to the lymph nodes (unlike my father who lost about half his back and the lymph glands); his was Cat three but he did survive.

Point I'm making here is go to an expert. The world's best melanoma specialists are in Brisbane AU and Phoenix AZ. Many GPs, even ones in western countries offer to burn the things off. This is total folly...the mole/ lesion in question must be excised and correctly tested and action taken from there. The amount of melanoma victims who have had moles burned/ frozen off, only for them to reappear in a few years in malignant form is legion.

Hope this helps. Of course is you have an itchy annoying type of cutaneous cancer such as BSC it poses no real danger, But melanoma once it gets to Category four is invariable fatal and a nasty way to go...spreads through the lymphs, then lungs, liver etc before reaching the spine and brain. Awful thing. Can take a decade.

One last thing, which is funny -- the manager we all H8-ed so much ended up leaving a year or so later with his tail between his legs. But I gotta say I do owe the guy in a roundabout way.

Cheers,


Me

I think Dr Scott can probably send a skin sample to a lab for you if you are concerned about cancer. SOS clinic could probably do it too. Getting diagnosed would be the easy part compared to getting treatment in the kingdom.

sorry for the off topic post, but i have some experience with medical testing in SHV so here goes my 2 cents worth,

i have history of high cholestrol, i have been under medication and been monitoring for the past 5 years, so when i start living in SHV i did a couple of lipid test in SHV, to my horror i found that i have been getting false results from SHV clinics (3 to be exact, erico, and 2 on echkareach street, cant remember the name), i confirmed that i have false results by going back to singapore and vietnam to do lipid test (all within same month just to make sure), both singapore and vietnam have same results while SHV gave false results.

later after confronting the "doctor" here in SHV, he confesses that most of the clinics uses old and 2nd hand equipment

so there you go, nothing can be trusted here, typical doing half fuck khmer style

Medicare now pays for the melanoma drugs-$170,000. What a great country, in my experience Thai medical care not cheap and not good. Fucking thieves. Australia are world leaders in skin cancer treatment- of course.

bolueeleh wrote:sorry for the off topic post, but i have some experience with medical testing in SHV so here goes my 2 cents worth,

i have history of high cholestrol, i have been under medication and been monitoring for the past 5 years, so when i start living in SHV i did a couple of lipid test in SHV, to my horror i found that i have been getting false results from SHV clinics (3 to be exact, erico, and 2 on echkareach street, cant remember the name), i confirmed that i have false results by going back to singapore and vietnam to do lipid test (all within same month just to make sure), both singapore and vietnam have same results while SHV gave false results.

later after confronting the "doctor" here in SHV, he confesses that most of the clinics uses old and 2nd hand equipment

so there you go, nothing can be trusted here, typical doing half fuck khmer style

Depends where you go - go to Central Hospital PP they have very good equipment and are reliable http://www.central-hospital.com/ a consultation and fairly exhaustive blood analysis coupled with an Echocardiogram will cost around $110

Rony ( who runs Sail Cambodia in Shv) had a bunch of them froze off in Bangkok, think he told me like 500 baht each. Just visual inspection.
they never came back