After the doctor’s urgent warning Our prayers are with Kevin Costner

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The source advises the actor and filmmaker “to lather on the sunscreen and cover up properly,” and warns that “he’ll be sorry. Skin cancer is a serious subject.”

Kevin Costner showing ‘damage’
Agreeing with that sentiment, Dr. Gabe Mirkin – who does not treat Costner – said the Field of Dreams star is already showing “damage”.

Mirkin urges Costner “to see a dermatologist yearly and have each successive basal cell removed before it becomes more extensive.”

Basal cell carcinoma is the “most common type of cancer, “According to the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AAD). The organization says that people with “a lighter skin tone” who seldom protect the “skin from the sun” or use tanning beds, are at “a greater risk of developing” skin cancers.

The AAD writes, “Before basal cell carcinoma develops, people with lighter skin tones often notice signs of sun damage on their skin, such as age spots, patches of discolored skin, and deep wrinkles. These signs can develop years before cancer.”