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Ron Reimink knew how uncomfortable and annoying swimmer’s itch could be. He spent much of his adult life trying to eradicate it in lakes across northern Michigan. Then one day, he realized he was ...

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I don’t know whether it was later that day or the next day, I had an itchy spot on my back. “I just thought it was a mosquito bite, didn’t think anything of it, I felt it and went, ‘Oh ...

I don’t know whether it was later that day or the next day, I had an itchy spot on my back. Natasha Hamilton mistook skin cancer for an itchy mosquito bite (Picture: Good Morning Britain/ITV) ...

Atomic Kitten star issues warning after mistaking skin cancer for mosquito bite ... "I had an itchy spot on my back, and I thought it was a mosquito bite. I didn't think much of it.

The 42-year-old said she received the diagnosis last year after feeling an itch on her back following a ... was diagnosed with skin cancer after mistaking the first sign for a mosquito bite.