Read this! Travis Preston and skin cancer

Wow, thats just crazy. I didnt know that bout him. Hopes he gets a ride.

Potential Lance Armstrong of MX?

Scary stuff, glad he caught it in time.

I do think some riders are delusional thinking PC is the only one who can put a decent engine package together.

Travis needs to move up to the Northwest, he'll have a major part of the year with no sun whatsoever, problem solved.
Good luck Travis, you were missed at the open, hopefully you make the supercross series.

agreed

Always been a fan of Travis Preston. I'm glad he is over that cancer thing. Somebody needs to wake the fuck up and get him a bike, with some good tires! For fukks sake!

it was from a mole , not the sun lol

One of the fastest guys in the whoops.

fucking dummy...jeeesus.

Damn sounds like they had to cut a chunk out. Just reading his story made me phone up and book an appointment to get mine checked out next week.

Yeah my friend died from it . It was a mole on his back that spread . Melanoma is one of the fastest spreading cancers and is very dangerous. You dont always get it from the sun. I forgot that you are a doctor though. my bad

Cancer is a hard disease. I remember this woman when I used to cut hair got cancer. She was going through Chemo and losing her hair. I had to cut it all off. That was the hardest thing ever.

Makes think to live my life every day with the best intentions.

Melanoma can also grow under your skin as well. We just found out last week that my aunt has melanoma cancer. It is in the duct of her eye. We will find out how bad it is today. From what we are told melanoma can be grow anywhere. I have several moles that I am having checked out.

My wife is melanoma survivor.
she had it on her hip, right below the underwear line. She's convinced it was from tanning beds in high school.
They took an ice cream scoop chunk out of that area removing it.
To make it even more scary, she was pregnant with our first child when we found out.

I don't do the sun anymore.

Melanoma is the same thing GL has/had on his eye.

Big fan of Preston. It floors me that he can't find or doesn't have a ride. Last year it was obvious he had more skill and talent than the majority of the field. He would have been a serious podium contender on a regular basis with some conditioning.

Somebody give this guy a ride.

I have been dealing with this for about a year had this little spot on my neck and it wouldn't go away. They tested it and my luck it was melanoma Now after 2 surgeries it's all gone. I hope!! NIce big scare now wear your sun block.....

Melanoma is a cancer of the cells that produce the color in your skin. While a person that had never had any sun exposure (a hypothetical in the real world) can still develop this cancer, it is incontrovertible (Rupert will dig that word) that excessive and/or excessive early in life sun exposure increases your risk of melanoma.

So....fugg yes, sun exposure/tanning bed exposure plays a large role in the development of melanoma. Any other questions??

MR

I haven't seen an official release on Langston's tumor type.....but the boards are reporting it as a melanoma. Quite uncommon in the eye, but it happens.

Unfortunately, as you're reading in this thread, the major way to treat this cancer is to cut it out.....with a big margin of surrounding tissue for safety's sake.

Doing that in the eye is quite difficult, and often means enucleation. I'm praying for Grant that he has other treatment options.

I thought I saw an interview where Grant said it wasn't a melanoma. However the treatment that was described, putting metal shields in the orbit behind the eye and having radiation sounds like the treatment for melanoma.

He is incredibly blessed to have had a melanoma that long and still be alive. It's the most aggressive form of skin cancer. A woman we know was gone about nine months after discovering a small mole on her leg. I had a large basal cell carcinoma cut out from my lower leg a couple years ago and the doc was very relieved that the biopsy came back not melanoma.

Here is what Grant had to say about his eye problem during the press conference before the US Open.
http://www.racetime.com:80/index.php/mx-talk?func=view&id=18548&catid=6

Langston, who won last year’s Rockstar Energy Drink U.S. Open, has put his professional racing career on hold due to a tumor behind his eye. He recently had surgery to help isolate the tumor during treatments of radiation. Despite the touchy situation, he was optimistic and hopes to return to racing if his body lets him.

My condition changed the past few months, actually the past year. I had an eye issue and was able to figure out what the problem was. They determined that it was a cancerous tumor. I had surgery in my eye, and they put a plate in my eye to protect me from the radiant to kill off the cancer. I caught it early, so that is good news. As far as my eyesight is concerned, there is a good chance that it can improve. Long term, I may lose site in that eye. I have my fingers crossed. I would love to be back here racing next year. I will get to cheer on my buddies racing this weekend from the VIP section. You get dealt cards in life and you deal with them.

Now it’s a waiting game and I will wait it out. As soon as someone mentions the word cancer, it puts a different point of view on the situation. I made sure I saw the best doctors I could. I got a lot of opinions, knowledge and information to make, what I believe, was an informed decision. I was dragging my feet when they talked about radiation. I scratched for a new theory that would not call for that procedure, but I feel comfortable that I made the right decision. I feel that the one good thing is that the tumor is very isolated, and that will stop it from spreading. If it does spread, it could be detrimental in the end.

I really enjoy this race. When I crossed the finish line last year, I didn’t think I won. I knew I was on the podium, but I did not know I won. This is such a unique race for all of us because we are in the MGM Grand for four days. Another interesting thing from last year was that the top five riders from Friday night were on the ground on Saturday night. That was pretty ironic. Everything I touched last year turned to gold. This is a famous venue and that says a lot for the sport.

When I was at home thinking about things, I did think about retiring all together. I was actually going to announce my retirement today. I laid in bed many nights thinking about it. My Dad was always a tough guy and the driving force in my career, but he came to me and said, ‘I would be ok with it if you quit.’ Many friends and family suggested I stop racing, but the problem is that in my heart. I don’t want to say I am going to quit. I love the sport so much, and I sit here and look at the track and miss everything. I would love to come back and race. I have met so many cool people in my career. Mentally I feel like I need to be out there. I am the kind of person that sticks to something once I make a decision. If my eye does not improve, I will not risk returning to racing. Seeing enough is not good enough for our sport. You need to be able to see everything. The simple fact is that I would love to race.