My XAH had a malignant melanoma in 2006. Basically, skin cancer works like this--either it's caught in time, in which case it is completely treatable, or it doesn't, in which case, unfortunately, it's usually bad, bad news. His was found to not have spread, therefore, completely treatable. But he will still bring it up to this day, how he is a cancer survivor, how some of those "rogue cells" might have sprang up elsewhere. Which is true, I guess, but no more true of him than anyone else. He relished the attention. He still loves the phrase "cancer survivor". For a certain type of alcoholic, nothing is better in terms of playing the victim card.