Saturday, July 4, 2009
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Ride for melanoma planned in Galesville

Published 04/07/08

Several years ago, County Executive John R. Leopold discovered a small, flat dark spot on his abdomen had gained a texture.

Wendi Winters - For The Capital Galesville resident Ken McGregor Shuart, 48, plans to bike across America with three friends. Dubbing themselves Ride4Melanoma, to raise funds for skin cancer awareness, they are participating in the Race Across America with 300 other cyclists.
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Dennis Callahan, the county's chief administrative officer, kept feeling a tiny bump on his head when he combed his hair. He never saw the spot on his hip.

Three years ago, beauty contestant Brittany Lietz, while preparing for Miss Maryland USA, didn't notice the changes in a mole on her back as she admired her baked-on tan at the tanning salon.

They all were later diagnosed with cancerous melanomas, cancers of the skin.

Tests revealed cancerous cells had reached a sentinel node in Mr....

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